Booting from Zorro II Network Card

[Thomas]

AFAIK not. In order to boot from a network drive you need the network driver, TCP/IP stack and remote software all in a firmware ROM. AFAIK there is no expansion at all which has this.

But it should be possible to create a floppy that starts the network, creates the necessary assigns and then boots from the network. Just like a slightly  expanded OS3.9 emergency disk.

Bye,
Thomas

[Thomas]

If you have a CF->IDE connector, you should attach it to the internal IDE bus, so you can boot from it without any floppy. The IDE connectors on the X-Surf cannot boot.

But if you already have a CF card of let's say 16MB, you can  store the entire AmigaOS on it, no need for a slow network boot.

Bye,
Thomas