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Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 09:34:53 +0200
From: Lucio De Re <lucio@proxima.alt.za>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] diskless terminal?
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In-Reply-To: <200006290240.WAA28131@cse.psu.edu>; from okamoto@granite.cias.osakafu-u.ac.jp on Thu, Jun 29, 2000 at 11:41:03AM +0900
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On Thu, Jun 29, 2000 at 11:41:03AM +0900, okamoto@granite.cias.osakafu-u.ac.jp wrote:
>
> The problem was, probably, there in the ether device driver(etherelnk3.c).
> I tried to use 3C509B-COMBO(ID9450) which I have been using for release 2
> systems.  Today, I changed the ether card to a NE2000 (ISA), then, I have now
> no problem.
>
Yes, I have the same symptoms, neither ISA nor PCI Etherlink IIIs seem to
cut it?  That is a thorn in my side, anyone fixed it?

> Now, I have two file servers and the others are all diskless, all the resources
> comes from file servers!
>
I never quite understood how to make a CPU server diskless, there's
something there that beats me.  How did you do it?

++L