[WBEL-users] Re: Re: drvnet.img

[Keith Morse]

On Mon, 12 Jul 2004, Kirby Bohling wrote:

> Unless you're building the driver special, the network boot image
> isn't limited to what can fit on a floppy, so it has pretty much all
> of the NIC's on the image.  Just like the CD has a ton more drivers
> then the network floppy does.  I'm not suggesting you use the floppy
> to boot ther kernel, I'm suggesting you get the kernel via
> BOOTP/DHCP and a PXE environment.  If you have a second whitebox
> machine anywhere near by it's easy to do.
> 
> 	Kirby


So far I have not yet setup a PXE environment, but this is on my list of 
things to do.  Actually I'm not sure the GX50 supports PXE.  Hmmmmmm, 
guess I'll need to look into that also.