Patrick, Can you send me some info about the cash resgisters software. A friend is making a academical study about the use of Linux on Small Medium size business and now is focused on open source/free Software cash register systems (she is trying LanePOS) and if you have some url to point me it would be nice.
Thanks in advance, Cheers, Offray El mar, 25-06-2002 a las 13:29, Patrick Hurley escribió: > Ok I have what has to be a fairly unique setup (dictated by a customer, > not my choice ;-). > > I need to remote boot (cash registers) which are going to be running > Linux, from a Windows 2000 server. I have created a kernel image which I > can boot from a hard drive (on the register). And then package it using: > > mknbi-linux --rootdir=/mypath mykernel > linux.nb > > I then have to package it up using: > > imggen -a linux.nb linux.img (got this utility from IBM, but did find a > reference at the ltsp site - without this I my register dumps a bunch of > character mode garbage to the screen and fails saying: > > Network boot aborted. > > With the imggen utility, I get a reasonable TFTP connection, lots of > pretty dots as the kernel is loaded and then for a (very) brief moment I > can see a mknbi banner and the text Bad Argument. Then the screen goes > blank and nothing happens. > > My ultimate goal is to setup a system that boots to ram disk (include > the image with the kernel) and then mount some smb shares - but the > kicker here is that the system must keep working when offline, so I > cannot go the NFS my root setup. I do not have an NFS server under > win32, so if at all possible I would like to avoid booting via NFS and > pivot (it would complicate the server). > > Thanks (heck come to Detroit I will buy you some beers) in advance for > any help > pth > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This sf.net email is sponsored by: Jabber Inc. > Don't miss the IM event of the season | Special offer for OSDN members! > JabConf 2002, Aug. 20-22, Keystone, CO http://www.jabberconf.com/osdn > _____________________________________________________________________ > Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss > For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.openprojects.net ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.openprojects.net
