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> To be fair, in those times most people had "bare" network cards and needed to add an Eprom to it to add the PXE extension. I remember the days of plugging ch
by EvanAnderson 3y ago
> To be fair, in those times most people had "bare" network cards and needed to add an Eprom to it to add the PXE extension.
I remember the days of plugging chips into NE2000 clones to put in diskless 386’s connected to a thinnet network. These machines netbooted DOS and the Novell Netware client from a 486-based server running Netware 3 using a proprietary, non-PXE boot process. Loads of fun.
(I still have a tray of boot ROMs somewhere. I wonder if that code has been preserved somewhere or if I should read them out...)
- jaclaz 3y agoVery likely that particular boot code was proprietary, in case of need there is the Etherboot/gPXE project: http://etherboot.org/wiki/ http://etherboot.org/wiki/ but there is a whole world of different Eprom sizes and the usual possibility of incompatibilities with the NIC or with the BIOS on those old machines: https://tldp.org/HOWTO/Network-boot-HOWTO/a628.html https://tldp.org/HOWTO/Network-boot-HOWTO/a628.html