Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2000 09:47:15 +0100 (MET)From: Erik Starb鋍k <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: 1.0Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=iso-8859-1Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BITSender: owner-netboot@baghira.han.dePrecedence: bulkReply-To: netboot@baghira.han.deX-Moderator: netboot-owner@baghira.han.deHello!In <http://www.han.de/~gero/netboot/archive/msg01718.html> I wrote what Idid know about futil and fboot then. It is about the same as Martysinstructions, 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.FLSIt worked for me without any padding. When I burned a smaller imagethe program printed 50% instead of 100% and then itstopped. Everything worked anyway.I also did a brutal way of install etherboot or netboot on aEEPRO100+Mng without creating a file of type "2794FC60.FLS" forevery card. It was necessary for me when I installed 70 clients...I chopped the binary file fboot.exe (my version was 99811 bytes, Idon't remember the version name) in three parts:fboot1 30096 bytesfboot2 65536 bytesfboot3 4179  bytesThen you cat put them together again, but with a different part 2 andsave it as fbootown.exe and execute it. It worked for me anyway. Ofcourse you have to use padding to get a 64k part instead of fboot2./Erik S-------------------------------------------------------------------------Erik Starb鋍k, System administrator    E-mail address:    erik@math.uu.seUppsala University                     Telephone (o):     +46 18 4713277Department of Mathematics              Cellular phone:    +46 70 4250260P. O. Box 480                          Fax (o):           +46 18 4713201SE-751 06  UPPSALA                  Sweden