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| author | Luigi Rizzo <luigi@FreeBSD.org> | 2001-05-11 11:57:32 +0000 |
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| committer | Luigi Rizzo <luigi@FreeBSD.org> | 2001-05-11 11:57:32 +0000 |
| commit | 3724810b315e7fc075190cb029364888ee0f04f5 (patch) | |
| tree | e84aca911767736a8d0d459d16d318553aa1da4f /net/etherboot/pkg-descr | |
| parent | 0120963fd145b26417124a0f7a0a0c562222e894 (diff) | |
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| -rw-r--r-- | net/etherboot/pkg-descr | 19 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/net/etherboot/pkg-descr b/net/etherboot/pkg-descr index 84c661fac536..1c769468e924 100644 --- a/net/etherboot/pkg-descr +++ b/net/etherboot/pkg-descr @@ -1,8 +1,15 @@ This code was originaly from FreeBSD and then the Linux folks greatly -enhanced its functionality and capabilities. It tftp's the kernel -and boots it. It also has a menu capability. +enhanced its functionality and capabilities. It produces ROM-able +code to boot ELF/aout kernels over NFS or TFTP. It also includes +boot loaders to load the ROM images from raw floppy or hard disks, +or DOS disks. -.rom images are built in work/etherboot/src/bin32. Edit "Config" -in work/etherboot/src directory for more features. To make a floppy -image cd in work/etherboot/src and type gmake bin32/<device type>.fd0 . -.com images are made via gmake bin32/<device type>.com . +There are different ROM images for different network cards +(many are supported). They are built in work/etherboot/src/bin32. + +Edit "Config" in work/etherboot/src directory for more features, +default is to boot ELF kernels over NFS. + +To make a floppy image do + cd work/etherboot/src ; gmake bin32/<device.fd0 +.COM images are made via gmake bin32/<device type>.com . |