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- Freely redistributable universal network boot floppies for Linux
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- CONTENTS
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- 3c503.floppy Boot floppy for 3Com 3c503 ethernet card
- 3c509.floppy Boot floppy for 3Com 3c509 ethernet card
- ne.floppy Boot floppy for NE2000 or compatible ethernet card
- wd.floppy Boot floppy for Western Digital WD80*3 ethernet card
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- USAGE NOTES
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- These floppy images are configured to assume that your ethernet
- card is at address 0x300. If you are using the 3c503, you must have
- the BIOS ROM enabled. The 3c503, ne2000 and Western Digital floppies
- have been tested. The 3c509 floppy has not been tested as of the
- writing of this document (26 April 1996).
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- REBUILDING FROM SOURCE
-
- The source code for these floppy disks consists of the
- etherboot-1.1 package and the comboot-1.1 boot sector. You can
- get this software from the following locations:
-
- etherboot:
- sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/system/Linux-boot/etherboot-1.1.tar.gz
- ftp.yggdrasil.com:/mirrors/sunsite/system/Linux-Boot/etherboot-1.1.tar.gz
- comboot:
- ftp.yggdrasil.com:/pub/dist/booting/comboot-1.0.tar.gz
- sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/system/Linux-boot/comboot-1.0.tar.gz
- tsx-11.mit.edu:/pub/linux/dos_utils/comboot-1.0.tar.gz
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- Once you have the tar files of comboot-1.0 and etherboot-1.1,
- you would type the following to rebuild the boot floppies (I have
- tested these commands):
-
- tar xfpz comboot-1.0.tar.gz
- tar xfpvz etherboot-1.1.tar.gz
- cd comboot-1.0
- make install # Installs /usr/lib/bootsectors/comboot
- cd ../etherboot-1.1/netboot-32
- make
- for x in *.com ; do
- cat /usr/lib/bootsectors/comboot $x > `basename $x .com`.floppy
- done
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- POINTERS TO DOCUMENTATION
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- For documention on how to use the diskless boot floppies, see the
- README file in etherboot-1.1, which is FTPable from
- sunsite.unc.edu:pub/Linux/system/Linux-boot. You will also have to install
- bootpd and tftpd on a server machine. The machine that is running
- bootpd must be on the same ethernet as the diskless client. Once
- you have installed bootpd, doing a "man bootptab" should give you
- useful information on the /etc/bootptab file which you will have to
- edit to set up diskless bootking.
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- COPYRIGHT
-
- These floppy images were made the etherboot and comboot software
- packages. Because their contents are covered by the GNU General
- Public License, if you distribute these images, you must distribute
- the source code to both etherboot and comboot or make it available
- in certain ways, as spelled out by version 2 of the GNU General
- Public License, as published by the Free Software Foundation
- (Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA). A copy of the GNU General Public
- License is included in the file COPYING in this directory.
-
- etherboot is available from the following locations:
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- sunsite.unc.edu:pub/Linux/system/Linux-Boot/etherboot-1.1.tar.gz
- ftp.yggdrasil.com:mirrors/sunsite/system/Linux-Boot/etherboot-1.1.tar.gz
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- comboot is available from the following locations:
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- ftp.yggdrasil.com:pub/dist/comboot-1.0.tar.gz
- sunsite.unc.edu:pub/Linux/system/Linux-Boot/comboot-1.0.tar.gz
- tsx-11.mit.edu, directory to be determined
-
- This README file was written by Adam J. Richter and is copyright
- Yggdrasil Computing, Inc., 1996. It may be freely copied under
- the terms and conditions of version 2 of the GNU General Public
- License as published by the Free Software Foundation.
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-
- MAINTAINER
- adam@yggdrasil.com (Adam J. Richter)
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