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Article #20404Re: booting diskless macs on net
From: Mark A. Verber
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1987 21:13
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1987 21:13
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As far as I know, no one currently has anything that will do this. Many universities have hassled Apple about this, but it has stated very low priority. Only recently did we get an agreement that the MacII with EtherTalk should have that capability (when running A/UX). Two of the guys here have the basic design of a daughter board which would sit over the ROMs. It will use a programmable logic array to patch key locations in the ROM and then have PROM for a network booter, etc. This will be finish as soon :-) as things calm down here. If you had someone who was willing to put out a bit of work you could hack something together yourself. The easiest hack would be to build a little SCSI device that would load in a network bootstrap and the go. Cheers, ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Computer Science Department Mark A. Verber The Ohio State University verber@ohio-state.arpa +1 (614) 292-7344 cbosgd!osu-cis!verber
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!rutgers!sunybcs!boulder!hao!oddjob!gargoyle!ihnp4!cbosgd!osu-cis!tut!verber From: verber@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu (Mark A. Verber) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: booting diskless macs on net Message-ID: <494@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> Date: Thu, 15-Oct-87 17:13:11 EDT Article-I.D.: tut.494 Posted: Thu Oct 15 17:13:11 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 17-Oct-87 18:06:32 EDT References: <954@uhccux.UUCP> Organization: Ohio State University, Computer Science Lines: 20