It would be nice if a bootable disk with a hardware auto-detect program could be inserted into a legacy machine and tell you what you have installed on the machine without opening the case. Maybe offer some lts.conf suggestions as well. On Fri, 28 Feb 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Why not just LOOK at your network card, and download the correct > Etherboot image from rom-o-matic the first time, rather than doing > the hit-or-miss method ? > > Jim McQuillan > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, res0i1oz wrote: > > > Dear Friends, > > > > If someone put similar idea in this mail list before, I am sorry for my email. > > > > I guess, Marty Connor's www.Rom-O-Matic.net is the website that most LTSP hobbist, > > like me, to get the boot floppy or boot rom for network card. However, sometimes > > I meet some unkown network cards, and I have to download several different ROM > > file, then write into floppy disk, then try to boot. then to repeat... It really > > costs time and makes me not very happy. Why not put all ROM into a cdrom iso > > image, this CD should come with a very simple boot kernel (only first few steps), > > after boot from CD, using your arrow key to select/try the right ROM. It would > > make the setting of LTSP easy. > > > > J Bao > > ------------------------------------------------------- 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.freenode.net
