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Etherboot User Manual
9.11. Miscellaneous
1. I don’t understand something, or I have a question not covered by this list.
Please see Section 2.4 earlier in this document.
10. Acknowledgements
The following people have contributed substantially to Etherboot. If you feel your name has been left
out, just let me know and I will fix it up.
Markus Gutschke
Co-author of Etherboot. He was the person who ported the Netboot suite from FreeBSD. He has
enhanced Etherboot with many features, one new driver and has contributed various utilities and
addons.
Gero Kuhlmann
The original mknbi utilities used by Etherboot are from Netboot. He has also clarified the original
specification by Jamie Honan.
Jamie Honan
Jamie started Netboot off by writing the first version that used code from a packet driver.
Martin Renters et. al
The original authors of Netboot on FreeBSD.
Bruce Evans
Created bcc compiler used by Etherboot/16 (16 bit ROMs are no longer supported).
Rob de Bath
Current maintainer of bcc and associated tools like as86, used in older versions of Etherboot to
assemble the x86 assembly language files.
Gerd Knorr
Contributed MASQ for making a boot floppy without DOS.
Adam Richter
Contributed comboot for making a boot floppy without DOS.
Claus-Justus Heine
Contributed patch for serial console and NFS swapping. See the contrib/nfs-swap directory for his
Web page.
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