Re: ComOs 3.7 - Netboot image for Portmaster 2?

Stephen R. van den Berg (srb@cuci.nl)
Sat, 23 Aug 1997 02:55:27 +0200

Heiko Schlittermann wrote:
>On Thu, Aug 21, 1997 at 02:54:11PM -0600, Stephen Fisher wrote:
>: > Why does Livingston offer a ComOs 3.7 without a Netboot image?

>The ComOS's available for FTP look like uuencoded. Probably it would
>suffice to uudecode the files ...

>Could check:

> Boot GENERIC.PMx
> pm> tftp put comos <host> generic.uue
> Edit generic.uue to conform to uuencoded files (the ``begin'' and
> ``end'' line have to be completed)
> $ uudecode <generic.uue >generic.image
> $ diff generic.image GENERIC.PMx

Been there. Done that. I think I created a 3.5c6 netbootable image myself
(and successfully netbooted it too).
I bet it's a small exercise to create a netbootable image out of the
3.7 ComOS ftp'able version.

-- 
Sincerely,                                                          srb@cuci.nl
           Stephen R. van den Berg (AKA BuGless).


"My name is Smith, the P is not pronounced."