Paul Bickford <bickford@jimmy.harvard.edu>  wrote:
 > [And a note about that i386 machine: it can't see/use/configure the
 > ethernet card: a 3COM 3C509_B_-TPO, so any "diskless booting", even if
 > theroretically possible, is currently impossible.]
 > 
 > More than a little frustrated,

IMO, it would be better to debug the 3c509 problem you're having on the
i386 first. Then you can just do a network install on the DS3100 and
you'll have the additional benefit of having a working network card in
your i386...

Maybe go to port-i386 and post there... 

just my opinion.