On Friday 09 February 2007 06:23, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > The last version of winders where loadlin works is 95 or 98. So you can
> > expect
> > it to not get much attention anymore.
> > Wots wrong with PXE? see http://www.rom-o-matic.net/
> > My lappie F12 = boot menu, option PXE. Loadlin may not even work anymore.
> > YMMV
>
> You must have missed the beginning of this thread - the machine is a
> Toshiba Satellite 4030CDT circa 1998 with Windows 98 on it, and I don't
> dare to try to touch its ancient BIOS to try to teach it PXE booting (or is
> there a way to start PXE boot without changing the BIOS?).
>
> So loadlin is all I'm left with. I managed to make it load the kernel and
> initrd image from inside win98 but apparently the initrd image I created
> missed the right network drivers. I think I figured out how to overcome
> this but now I'm busy with another (temporary?) way to achieve the goals of
> this "project" so it will take time to get back to trying my fix.
>
> BTW - XFCE is indeed much much lighter on my existing desktop, and I should
> try to test E17 at some stage...
Sorry, the reason I pointed you at rom-o-matic was their wealth of options
eg
grub: boot windows
boot pxe
or CDROM pxe boot
or CDROM network boot (tagged image)
or HD versions of above
etc
Point of LTSP is that your stately lappie will work at server performance.
192M is quite adequate and even my ebox-2300 (128M + 200MHz) works
brilliantly
James
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