On Thursday 05 June 2003 10:52 am, Erich Titl wrote: > >Hi Erich, > >I did this before.... Not with pcmcia cards but normal NIC's. I loaded > >Kernel from floppy(lilo not syslinux) and the filesystem from a tftp > > Server. Feel free to ask ;-) > > As far as I have learned until now is that etherboot builds some kind of > bootstrap which can load a kernel image and other files using tftp or NFS. > Unfortunately it does not seem to support PCMCIA devices, so it looks as if > I am stuck with either my 2 floppy set up or find a suitable DoM
This would likely depend on the drivers that can fit on the EEPROM that must fit on the NIC (of which likely aren't available on a PCMCIA NIC). My thought was to do a PXE boot that would require a floppy or other disk only for the PXE loader itself. I believe this is the option that OpenBrick uses as well with their version of Bering. I would appreciate any details that someone can provide that has already hacked a setup like this, though it will likely be a while before I have the time to finish such a project (it will allow for some planning w/o all the testing from step 1). -- ~Lynn Avants Linux Embedded Appliance Firewall Developer http://leaf.sourceforge.net http://guitarlynn.homelinux.org:81 ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Etnus, makers of TotalView, The best thread debugger on the planet. Designed with thread debugging features you've never dreamed of, try TotalView 6 free at www.etnus.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user SR FAQ: http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html
