[ale] Ethernet NICs with Boot ROMs

Eric Z. Ayers eric.ayers at mindspring.com
Thu Aug 3 22:09:50 EDT 2000


I just installed 3c59x cards.  You probably don't even necessarily
need a boot rom anymore.  It has a bios that comes up as a part of the
boot process that you can configure to network book.

-Eric.
Jeff Hubbs writes:
 > Is this still being done with modern Fast Ethernet NICs?  
 > 
 > Is it possible to use these to fully boot a diskless Linux or NT server from
 > software stored elsewhere?
 > 
 > - Jeff
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