| 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! |
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| 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. |
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| > 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. |
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| > $ perl -e 'print "\xFF" x 49152' > 48kpad.bin |
| > $ cat eepro100.rom 48kpad.bin > 2794FC60.FLS |
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| 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. |
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| 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... |
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| I chopped the binary file fboot.exe (my version was 99811 bytes, I |
| don't remember the version name) in three parts: |
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| fboot1 30096 bytes |
| fboot2 65536 bytes |
| fboot3 4179 bytes |
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| 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. |
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| /Erik S |
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