On Thu, 6 Mar 2003, Josiah Ritchie wrote: > My only additional comment, make sure it comes back to the menu if you > select the wrong one. That's a pet peeve of mine I guess.
Good luck. Once you hand the probing over to Etherboot, you are pretty much done. If etherboot fails to detect the card, you can't get control back without rebooting. Jim McQuillan [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Thanks, > JSR/ > > On Wed, 5 Mar 2003 23:38:10 +0100 > Anselm Martin Hoffmeister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> scripted: > > > Hello J Bao, > > > > Saturday, March 01, 2003, 3:13:06 AM, you wrote: > > > > > 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. > > > > That could be a job for you. It's not to difficult to prepare such a > > cdrom (could even be a floppy). Get some DOS bootable diskette (will > > work with ms-dos from win9x), use the "menu" structure and the dos > > executable file format that rom-o-matic provides... > > > > Right from the head, start like this (read test/control/read docs > > first) (look onto the w95 boot disk for example) > > > > ---<config.sys > > [menu] > > menuitem=RTL8139,RTL-8139 network board > > menuitem=RHINE,Via-Rhine network board > > [common] > > ---> > > > > ---<autoexec.bat > > if %MENU"==RTL8139" goto RTL8139 > > if %MENU"==RHINE" goto RHINE > > exit > > :RTL8139 > > eb-r8139.com > > exit > > :RHINE > > eb-rhine.com > > exit > > ---> > > > > If you have a working floppy like that, you could use linux tools to > > make a el-torito-bootable-cdrom from it, but even Windows software can > > do that, "Nero" did for me without complaint some time ago. > > > > Best regards, > > Anselm mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Etnus, makers of TotalView, The debugger > > for complex code. Debugging C/C++ programs can leave you feeling lost and > > disoriented. TotalView can help you find your way. Available on major UNIX > > and Linux platforms. Try it free. www.etnus.com > > _____________________________________________________________________ > > 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 > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Etnus, makers of TotalView, The debugger > for complex code. Debugging C/C++ programs can leave you feeling lost and > disoriented. TotalView can help you find your way. Available on major UNIX > and Linux platforms. Try it free. www.etnus.com > _____________________________________________________________________ > 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 > -- ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Etnus, makers of TotalView, The debugger for complex code. Debugging C/C++ programs can leave you feeling lost and disoriented. TotalView can help you find your way. Available on major UNIX and Linux platforms. Try it free. www.etnus.com _____________________________________________________________________ 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
