Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP with Ethernet Card without Rom

2002-07-08 Thread Luis Abraham Ponce García.
El Viernes, 5 Julio 2002, "Arif Altun" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: Hi Arif, well, you can find everything you need to boot fom floppy disks from www.rom-o-matic.com, you only need to find the model of your network card and download the file, then from a root terminal type: "cat (name_of_the_

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP with Ethernet Card without Rom

2002-07-05 Thread ken_yap
>If you are using a floppy, why not put the kernel on the floppy, with >you root fs on nfs ?. >You can still use dhcp to assign ip. Because it boots up from the network in a couple of seconds after reading in and executing Etherboot, as opposed tens of seconds reading the whole floppy. And with t

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP with Ethernet Card without Rom

2002-07-05 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Shane, At 06:01 PM 7/5/2002 +0100, Shane Kennedy wrote: >If you are using a floppy, why not put the kernel on the floppy, with >you root fs on nfs ?. >You can still use dhcp to assign ip. I am interested to learn how to make it. Could you please pass me more information. Thanks Stephen Li

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP with Ethernet Card without Rom

2002-07-05 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Arif, The workstation can boot from a floppy. Please visit following site for more information http://etherboot.sourceforge.net/ Have a trial Stephen At 06:16 PM 7/5/2002 +0300, Arif Altun wrote: >Hi, >I am completely new to ltsp. However, I am determined to give it a try. I >have a qu

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP with Ethernet Card without Rom

2002-07-05 Thread Peter Lister
> If you are using a floppy, why not put the kernel on the floppy, with > you root fs on nfs ?. You intend to flash the nic rom but - You are testing your image before flashing it - You can't flash all 200 clients today but they all have to work by tomorrow at 08:00 The other 199 clients

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP with Ethernet Card without Rom

2002-07-05 Thread Francis Avila
> Hi, > I am completely new to ltsp. However, I am determined to give it a try. I > have a question about initializing ltsp workstations. Is it possible to > use regular ethernet cards (without ROMs) and to create bootable diskettes > to initialize workstations from. It certainly is. This is sta

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP with Ethernet Card without Rom

2002-07-05 Thread Shane Kennedy
If you are using a floppy, why not put the kernel on the floppy, with you root fs on nfs ?. You can still use dhcp to assign ip. Shane Peter Lister wrote: > > > I am completely new to ltsp. However, I am determined to give it a try. I > > have a question about initializing ltsp workstations. Is

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP with Ethernet Card without Rom

2002-07-05 Thread rob apodaca
On Fri, 5 Jul 2002 18:16:34 +0300 (EEST) "Arif Altun" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > I am completely new to ltsp. However, I am determined to give it a try. I > have a question about initializing ltsp workstations. Is it possible to > use regular ethernet cards (without ROMs) and to create

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP with Ethernet Card without Rom

2002-07-05 Thread Peter Lister
> I am completely new to ltsp. However, I am determined to give it a try. I > have a question about initializing ltsp workstations. Is it possible to > use regular ethernet cards (without ROMs) and to create bootable diskettes > to initialize workstations from. I have read it was possible to writ

[Ltsp-discuss] LTSP with Ethernet Card without Rom

2002-07-05 Thread Arif Altun
Hi, I am completely new to ltsp. However, I am determined to give it a try. I have a question about initializing ltsp workstations. Is it possible to use regular ethernet cards (without ROMs) and to create bootable diskettes to initialize workstations from. I have read it was possible to write th