Rishi Gangoly wrote:
On Thursday 05 Feb 2004 9:13 am, Krishna Dagli wrote:
Rishi I just finished that and I had hard time finding bootrom and intel cards which can take etherboot images directly but no luck.
Hi Krishna,
I don't think there are bootroms available for Intel Lan cards.
If you are lucky get normal intel cards and ATMEL chips in loose from Lamington road.
That's exactly what I need.
I have 3 Intel Lan Cards with the ATMEL chips soldered to the PCB. But the rest of my Lan cards are without any ATMEL chips and have just a socket to hold these chips.
I've scanned images of my LAN cards and you can see what I've got.
Card without ATMEL chip http://www.geocities.com/rishigangoly/intel_wo_br.jpg
Card with ATMEL chip http://www.geocities.com/rishigangoly/intel_w_br.jpg
Looked the cards. If I'm not mistaken then they are 721383-008(9) series, with them either ATMEL or SST chips should work. I think you will get SST chips hopefully.
I got PXE bootrom cards and instead of using etherboot images directly on the card I installed etherboot images on the DHCP server (DHCP Server 3) which works beautifully though boot time is little bit longer.
The newer LTSP kernels support PXE booting and thus did not need Etherboot images to boot. Also it's quite fast with PXE booting. Maybe we should visit each others office and compare notes. ;-)
Here I'm totaly clueless, I use debian, hand create base image then chroot /var/lib/diskless/default/root. This way server can be on stable while all nodes can run testing/unstable as on nodes I require to have latest of everything.
Let me know how many cards you want and I'll try and get them for you.
I just need lots of those ATMEL chips. Where can I get them and how much for each? Will call you for sure on Monday. Any other number I can reach you at on a Sunday? ;-)
My number is 9821920284...
Will hopefully catch-up at LUG meeting.
-krd