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diff --git a/contrib/eepro100notes/flash-3.txt b/contrib/eepro100notes/flash-3.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 1a865a44..00000000 --- a/contrib/eepro100notes/flash-3.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,57 +0,0 @@ -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) :-) -In-Reply-To: <1263512144-341319205@entity.com> -Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.96.1000123094505.28562A-100000@anarchy.math.uu.se> -MIME-Version: 1.0 -Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=iso-8859-1 -Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT -Sender: owner-netboot@baghira.han.de -Precedence: bulk -Reply-To: netboot@baghira.han.de -X-Moderator: netboot-owner@baghira.han.de - - -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 - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -Erik Starbäck, System administrator E-mail address: erik@math.uu.se -Uppsala University Telephone (o): +46 18 4713277 -Department of Mathematics Cellular phone: +46 70 4250260 -P. O. Box 480 Fax (o): +46 18 4713201 -SE-751 06 UPPSALA -Sweden |