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