ANNOUNCE: Etherboot 3.1 beta

[Ken Yap <ken@syd.dit.csiro.au>]

Dear Netboot list,

I have had some time to work on Etherboot 3.0 and have fixed some bugs
and cleaned up the code a bit. In particular, both the 16 and 32 bit
versions now use the same loaders (plain and uncompressed). The 8kB
16-bit version is a possibility for a universal TCP boot ROM for those
NICs supported. 3.1 will be a maintenance release; there are no new
features.  I'm announcing a beta here so that you can try it out
first.

You can get 3.1beta from

	http://www.syd.dit.csiro.au/staff/ken/personal/etherboot-3.1b.tar.gz

In reply to Bernd (who is being cc'ed on this mail):

>Hi Ken!
>
>I heard from Markus that you are revamping the bootcode.
>I would be particulary interested in that, 'cause the old
>code does not work for my setup. Can you point me to
>a newer beta-version?
>
>We are using etherboot on our pool at the moment,
>however if I could get it to work with win95 and win3.11,
>I' be really glad.
>
>Thanks, Bernd

I don't have any experience with booting DOS or Windoze; however that
is being worked on in the Netboot package, the latest release of which
is 0.5.3. Bernd, if you are not on the netboot mailing list, you can
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