Sophie: etherboot-5.4.4-4mdv2010.0 x86

etherboot-5.4.4-4mdv2010.0.x86_64.rpm

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>&#13;Diskless computer (DC) broadcasts MAC address with bootp: Who am I?

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>&#13;DHCP server on S looks up DB: Your IP address is X.X.X.X, your server is
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>&#13;DC asks to load file from TFTP server on S: Please give me
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>&#13;S: Here you are (<TT
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>&#13;DC thinks a while (booting Linux).

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>&#13;DC: Please let me mount <TT
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>&#13;DC: Please let me mount other NFSes (<TT
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>&#13;S: Here you are

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>&#13;DC: Runs intended application

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>&#13;Network boot ROM contains code to do 1 and 3.

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