yes, it does exist Jim, and its called knoppix 8)

--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 
> 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
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
> 
> 
>
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