RPL vs PXE (was Re: Installing Linux (without CD/floppies))
Ken Chase
math at velocet.ca
Tue Feb 18 07:33:27 PST 2003
On Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 09:05:48AM -0500, Donald Becker's all...
> On Mon, 17 Feb 2003, Mark Hahn wrote:
>
> > > As long as your network cards' support PXE (most do nowadays), then it is
> >
> > is that really true? great if so! I haven't looked, but tend to only
> > expect builtin eth to support PXE...
> >
>
> Almost all current, performance-oriented motherboards have built-in Fast
> Ethernet with PXE support in the BIOS Flash.
>
> Most low-end Fast Ethernet cards have a socket but do not include a boot
> ROM. It's difficult to find the correct Flash-ROM part, and you must
> still program them one by one. It's easier and less expensive to just
> buy the slightly more expensive 3Com or Intel NICs with built-in Flash-ROMs.
>
> No matter what installation you use, we recommend leaving the system set
> to PXE boot.
Many lower end boards include RPL now, which seems to be of the IBM
variety (not Novell). I've gotten linux to boot off a linux RPLD server -
has anyone gotten FreeBSD to do the same (off a linux RPLD server - RPLD
wont run on freebsd, and its nontrivial to tweak for freebsd servers).
/kc
>
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