When I used rom-o-matic.net to create a Etherboot Floppy, I was asked to "Choose NIC/ROM type". I found the "centaur-p - tulip [0x1317,0x0985]" option for my Linksys LNE100TX ver 5.1 NIC.
It worked as advertised. Gave me a file named "eb-5[1].0.8-centaur-p.lzdsk". Life is good. Now I need to configure for dual DHCP servers. Therefore, I need to change the DHCP port in the Linux box. Per the paper at http://www.ltsp.org/contrib/parallel_dhcp.txt I need to compile my own etherboot image. 3. Desktop (non-PCMCIA) client 3.1 For initial DHCP request (B.1) You need to compile your own Etherboot images. Obtain the latest Etherboot code, and edit the following lines in <etherboot>/src/etherboot.h #define BOOTP_SERVER 1001 #define BOOTP_CLIENT 1002 Make your boot floppies, for example, make bin32/eepro100.fd0 I downloaded etherboot-5.0.8.tar (actually etherboot-5.0.8.tar.gz) to /download/etherboot/. From that directory and from the command line, issued: tar -xzvf etherboot-5.0.8.tar.gz. A lot of good stuff expanded and a new sub-directory tree (etherboot-5.0.8 and more) was created. Looking in the new directory (etherboot-5.0.8) I found a document "INSTALL". Looking in this document I found a reference (2nd paragraph) to the resulting ROM image as follows: ... Your ROM images will be in bin32/xxx.rom and bin32/xxx.lzrom, where xxx is the name of your NIC driver. See src/NIC for the list of supported NICs. The mknbi tools are now distributed separately from the Etherboot web site http://etherboot.sourceforge.net/ ... At rom-o-matic, I specified "centaur-p - tulip [0x1317,0x0985]" and got an image named "eb-5[1].0.8-centaur-p.lzdsk". Further, looking at the data in src/NIC I find a line "centaur-p 0x1317,0x0985 ADMTek Centaur-P" which seems to relate to "centaur-p - tulip [0x1317,0x0985]" on rom-o-matic. Questions: 1) Where do I declare which NIC (centaur-p - tulip [0x1317,0x0985]) drivers are needed? 2) What nomenclature do I use for "centaur-p - tulip [0x1317,0x0985]" NIC? 3) Am I missing anything else? 4) How do I get from ".rom" or ".lzrom" to a ".lzdsk" format? Do I need to? 5) Ultimately, I want to burn this image to a EPROM. Any suggestions here? Once again I am most gratefully looking forward to your expert help. Thanks. George ------------------------------------------------------- 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
