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Help! Can't boot old 3Com NetBuilder

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From: Jonathan Sturges
Date: Wed, 09 Sep 1998 00:00

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Hi,
I've got an old, original NetBuilder router that I bought for home use.
However, it seems to have very old ROMs in it which are limiting how I
can boot it.  The PROM rev is "I".

It is unable to read DOS-formatted floppies, so I cannot boot it that
way.  And over the network, it tries to use XNS to boot!  I have no idea
how to handle this; I can't seem to find a free XNS boot server
implementation anywhere.

I've been able to boot it from floppy, but only using old, OLD
NetBuilder software...  version 5.1!!  I'd really like to be able to run
7.x or 8.x, if this old thing is still supported at those levels.

Can anyone help me out?

Hardware details:
model:		ESPL-220
Product:	NB3000
mfg. date:	4/90

thanks,
Jonathan

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