Hi,
Emile Snyder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> quoted last 12/20/01 4:50:10 PM as follows:
>
>How are you booting DOS on the clients now? Is there a hard drive
>installed for it? If so, using lilo to optionally boot either DOS from
>the drive or Linux from your LTSP server is pretty straightforward.
>
I'm booting my clients via floppy for testing but eventually will move them to
bootrom (etherboot) mode. No FDs nor HDs, there. Very thin.
>If there is no HD, using lilo on a boot floppy should also be pretty easy.
>I'm not sure how (or from what) you want to boot DOS from in this case. I
>don't personally know how to use DHCP or BOOTP to bring up DOS.
>
>-emile
I already was successful in booting the clients via DHCP on both DOS and Linux:
a) For Linux: - using the kernels that LTSP provided (pretty straightforward and
already 'tagged')
b) DOS - grabbed the bootsector of bootable DOS floppy, and made a file image of it
using 'dd'. Copied the
necessary DOS files needed too using 'mtools'. Tagged it so it can
be sent via TFTP from DHCP
using 'mknbi-dos'.
No problem booting either DOS or Linux by themselves. But i need the booting process
to be somewhat
'interactive' on the client side so users can choose what OS to boot - DOS or Linux.
thanks for replying,
phil
>
>On Thu, 20 Dec 2001, Philip A.Roa wrote:
>
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> I need some help with this one.
>>
>> My setup: diskless clients (to run DOS & Linux) + linux server running LTS apps
>(DHCP, TFTP)
>>
>> Access: a) DOS, so client machines can reach the Novell server running legacy text
>based applications
>> b) Linux, so they can run StarOffice.
>>
>> I was able to successfully boot DOS and Linux separately but am now at a loss as to
>how the boot process
>> can be controlled on the client side.
>>
>> Q1: Can i use LILO to issue a preliminary boot prompt so users can select which OS
>to boot?
>> If this is possible:
>> Q1.1: How can I send LILO to the clients as a tagged image (is this possible?)
>> Q2.2: What are the LILO "append" options to get a DOS/Linux image
>remotely off the LTS?
>> Q2: Or, is there a similar program that can accomplish the same neatly ;-) ?
>>
>> Thanks guys and regards,
>>
>> phil
>>
>>
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