Questions about LinuxBIOS

[Adam Nielsen]

Hi,

I've been keeping an eye on the LinuxBIOS project for a while now, and I've 
recently got hold of a couple of old motherboards I'd like to use with 
LinuxBIOS.  I realise there will probably be quite a bit of work involved 
with getting them going, but I'd just like to check I'm on the right track 
first!

I've read through all the FAQs, and I have a few questions:

Since none of the boards have on-board networking, I'd really like to use 
LinuxBIOS to enable them to boot Linux over the network with a standard PCI 
network card - it seems possible, but there doesn't seem to be anywhere that 
gives a definite 'yes' to this with standard PC hardware.

Once LinuxBIOS is compiled and ready to go, Is it possible to flash it into 
the board's existing BIOS?  (Without any hardware modifications, ZIF sockets, 
etc.)

One of the motherboards has a recovery jumper which can be used to reflash the 
BIOS if there was a problem during a flash operation, do you think this could 
be used as a backup option in case something goes wrong with LinuxBIOS?  
(yes, I'm aware of all the dangers etc., but the boards only cost me $1 each 
so I'm not too worried if I render them unusable, it'll just be a bit of a 
waste...)

The reason I ask is that the flash chip on one of the boards is soldered on 
and physically very small.  I did get hold of a BIOS upgrade for it though, 
and the BIOS code itself appears to be supplied as four 64K files - is this 
large enough?

Sorry if my questions are very basic, I'm new to all this ;-)

Thanks,
Adam.