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by **Chris Harshma** » Fri, 18 Jun 1999 04:00:00

I've been looking for this answer for a while, and still
no joy. Hopefully someone out there can assist - I need
to get this equipment purchased! (I've been to the
Etherboot page.)

We're using a collection of ISA and PCI NE2000-compatible
generic Ethernet cards (along with a handful of SMC Ultra16
8216T's) on Linux workstations. We need to start booting
these diskless from our PII server in the corner. All the
cards have sockets that look identical, at least in terms
of pin-outs and physical dimensions.

What hardware specifically will we need to accomplish this?
Which EPROM chips? Which burner? (If you could supply the
name of a vendor, and SKU or part numbers, it would be a
tremendous help.)

Thank you very much in advance for any assistance you might
be able to render.

Yours,
Chris

by **Damon J. Rygiewic** » Sat, 19 Jun 1999 04:00:00

I've been working on the same problem...but I've found some reasonable
answers. As for a burner, I bought the cheap model, the MCT-MEP-1C from JDR
Microdevices (http://www.jdr.com) for $129.99. For generic cards (like the
CNet I got), I bought 8k 150ns EPROMs (JDR #2764A-150) for $4.99 each. The
images in the Etherboot package labeled *.lzrom are compressed and fit on an
8k EPROM, however, the *.rom require a 16k EPROM, which will fit on most net
cards. If you e-mail JDR tech support with your question and card model,
they should have an answer too (and hopefully it will match mine :-) Hope
this information in useful.

Damon

>I've been looking for this answer for a while, and still
>no joy. Hopefully someone out there can assist - I need
>to get this equipment purchased! (I've been to the
>Etherboot page.)

>We're using a collection of ISA and PCI NE2000-compatible
>generic Ethernet cards (along with a handful of SMC Ultra16
>8216T's) on Linux workstations. We need to start booting
>these diskless from our PII server in the corner. All the
>cards have sockets that look identical, at least in terms
>of pin-outs and physical dimensions.

>What hardware specifically will we need to accomplish this?
>Which EPROM chips? Which burner? (If you could supply the
>name of a vendor, and SKU or part numbers, it would be a
>tremendous help.)

>Thank you very much in advance for any assistance you might
>be able to render.

>Yours,
>Chris

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Boot ROMs - what hardware?

Boot ROMs - what hardware?

Boot ROMs - what hardware?