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Jonathan Sturges (jonathan@sprintmail.com) wrote:
: 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.

Hello! Nearly the same problem here... But creating floppies is
easy: go to 3com an get the dos-program which can copy
netbuilder floppies to imagefiles on dos or back. I forgot the
name of this program but i know it is there.

You are in luck that you have prom rev I which supports
hd floppies. I only have prom rev H which supports only
dd floppies on which only fits bridging software, not
routing software.

Sure that i would like to have a rev I prom or prom-image but
i don't know the price or how to get it....

: 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.

As far as i know, the last software running on netbuilders without
the "II" is 51027 :(

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

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