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Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2000 09:47:15 +0100 (MET)
From: Erik Starbäck <erik@math.uu.se>
To: Netboot List <netboot@baghira.han.de>
Subject: Re: Look Mom, no PROM burner! (eepro100b flashing instructions) :-)
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Hello!
In <http://www.han.de/~gero/netboot/archive/msg01718.html> I wrote what I
did know about futil and fboot then. It is about the same as Martys
instructions, but I have a few comments now.
> Then, see how large it is, with an "ls -l eepro100.rom". the answer will
> probably be 16,384. You need to pad it with hex FFs to make it 64K for
> FBOOT. I used the following two lines to create the flash image file.
> $ perl -e 'print "\xFF" x 49152' > 48kpad.bin
> $ cat eepro100.rom 48kpad.bin > 2794FC60.FLS
It worked for me without any padding. When I burned a smaller image
the program printed 50% instead of 100% and then it
stopped. Everything worked anyway.
I also did a brutal way of install etherboot or netboot on a
EEPRO100+Mng without creating a file of type "2794FC60.FLS" for
every card. It was necessary for me when I installed 70 clients...
I chopped the binary file fboot.exe (my version was 99811 bytes, I
don't remember the version name) in three parts:
fboot1 30096 bytes
fboot2 65536 bytes
fboot3 4179 bytes
Then you cat put them together again, but with a different part 2 and
save it as fbootown.exe and execute it. It worked for me anyway. Of
course you have to use padding to get a 64k part instead of fboot2.
/Erik S
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