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10-26-2004, 01:15 PM
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Boot Roms
I was reading a website that had operating systems on a boot chip that is placed on a NIC.
Has anyone heard of this before? Anyone tried it out? |
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10-26-2004, 10:29 PM
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Yep - they were commonly used for diskless workstations back in the DOS days. Haven't seen any nics for a while that have the boot rom socket.
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10-27-2004, 04:02 AM
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They didn't have the operating system. Rather a bootstrap program to download the operating system. Somewhat like the bootstrap program that loads the operating system from the hard drive.
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