On 1/24/07, Amos Shapira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I've just realized that maybe the original subject was wrong and therefore
pointed repliers to the wrong direction. What I was after is to actually be
able to run something under Win98 which will start the boot sequence of
Linux over the network
2007/1/24, Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>> > On 24/01/07, Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> > Ha :) This laptop is so old that it doesn't have an integrated
network
>> > card - the net card is a PCMCIA 10/100 addition I bought her around
2003.
No- Ha ;) I did not write this. I am not the guy
2007/1/24, Amos Shapira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
On 24/01/07, Yedidyah Bar-David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> No, that's not true. Win98 is not DOS. It does use protected mode,
> although in some obscure way - IIRC only to separate the OS and the
> processes, not to separate the processes themse
> On 24/01/07, Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Ha :) This laptop is so old that it doesn't have an integrated network
> card - the net card is a PCMCIA 10/100 addition I bought her around 2003.
No- Ha ;) I did not write this. I am not the guy with the laptop
Peter
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On 24/01/07, Yedidyah Bar-David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
2007/1/24, Amos Shapira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> I've just realized that maybe the original subject was wrong and
> therefore pointed repliers to the wrong direction. What I was after is to
> actually be able to run something under Win98
I've just realized that maybe the original subject was wrong and therefore
pointed repliers to the wrong direction. What I was after is to actually be
able to run something under Win98 which will start the boot sequence of
Linux over the network and end up with NFS-root. So far it looks like LTSP
On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 08:25:46PM +1100, Amos Shapira wrote:
> On 23/01/07, Yedidyah Bar-David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >2007/1/23, Amos Shapira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> >>
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> Is it possible to achieve the same effect of PXE boot (i.e. pull
> >> everything over the net, at
On Tue, 23 Jan 2007, Amos Shapira wrote:
1. Do you know whether I should expect this to work on a laptop built in
1998 and support all the hardware on it? From digging the
rom-o-matic.netand other linked sites I didn't find an answer to that.
I have used it to boot full knoppix on PIII 450MHz
On Tue, 23 Jan 2007, Amos Shapira wrote:
On 23/01/07, Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I have used it to boot full knoppix on PIII 450MHz with only 64MB ram
Was it a laptop? Laptops have tendency to contain "special" and "nouvelle"
hardware, the kind that requires "special vendor CD with a
On 23/01/07, Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Tue, 23 Jan 2007, Amos Shapira wrote:
> 1. Do you know whether I should expect this to work on a laptop built in
> 1998 and support all the hardware on it? From digging the
> rom-o-matic.netand other linked sites I didn't find an answer to that.
On 23/01/07, Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
LTSP = Linux Terminal Services Project =~ Knoppix terminal server (which
is a version of ltsp with everything already working).
I see.
Etherboot has a rom-o-matic service which allows you to generate and
download a bootable PXE image for rom or
On Tue, 23 Jan 2007, Amos Shapira wrote:
On 23/01/07, Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Try to test it using the terminal server built into knoppix. Run knoppix
on a 'server' turn on terminal server services and make a boot floppy
using it, the boot the Toshiba with the floppy. This will not
On 23/01/07, Yedidyah Bar-David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
2007/1/23, Amos Shapira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> Hello,
>
> Is it possible to achieve the same effect of PXE boot (i.e. pull
> everything over the net, at most use a file on the local FAT32 disk for
> swap) using some DOS/Win98 software?
On 23/01/07, Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Try to test it using the terminal server built into knoppix. Run knoppix
on a 'server' turn on terminal server services and make a boot floppy
using it, the boot the Toshiba with the floppy. This will not be fast
Thanks but I don't quite follow w
Try to test it using the terminal server built into knoppix. Run knoppix
on a 'server' turn on terminal server services and make a boot floppy
using it, the boot the Toshiba with the floppy. This will not be fast
but you can do it in an hour.
Peter
=
2007/1/23, Amos Shapira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Hello,
Is it possible to achieve the same effect of PXE boot (i.e. pull
everything over the net, at most use a file on the local FAT32 disk for
swap) using some DOS/Win98 software?
For a tool allowing you to do it yourself, look at etherboot. For
Hello,
Is it possible to achieve the same effect of PXE boot (i.e. pull everything
over the net, at most use a file on the local FAT32 disk for swap) using
some DOS/Win98 software?
My motivation - we have an ancient Toshiba Sattelite 4030CDT that can boot
Ubuntu live from its CD-ROM but it's slo
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