[Ltsp-discuss] etherboot rom-o-matic image for compact flash

2007-12-11 Thread Gavin McCullagh
Hi, I recently have been given a couple of handy little i386 servers which take a hard disk and a CF disk. The previous owner had what appears to be a freebsd etherboot image on the CF disk (which appears as IDE) which comes up and makes a dhcp request but doesn't manage to boot (it seems to

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] etherboot rom-o-matic image for compact flash

2007-12-11 Thread Frank Lienhard
Hi Gavin, what worked for me (on a normal old PC) was this: I plugged in the cfcard via adapter as hda, booted a live Linux from cd and used fdisk to give the cf a ext2 file system. Than I made a /boot/grub dir on /dev/hda1 and 'just' copied menue.lst, stage1 and stage2 there. Than I installed

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] etherboot rom-o-matic image for compact flash

2007-12-11 Thread Gavin McCullagh
Hi, On Tue, 11 Dec 2007, Frank Lienhard wrote: what worked for me (on a normal old PC) was this: I plugged in the cfcard via adapter as hda, booted a live Linux from cd and used fdisk to give the cf a ext2 file system. Than I made a /boot/grub dir on /dev/hda1 and 'just' copied menue.lst,

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] etherboot rom-o-matic image for compact flash

2007-12-11 Thread Frank Lienhard
Gavin McCullagh wrote: Hi, On Tue, 11 Dec 2007, Frank Lienhard wrote: what worked for me (on a normal old PC) was this: I plugged in the cfcard via adapter as hda, booted a live Linux from cd and .. Just to mention I used (some old) puppy linux for that, I think (runs much

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] etherboot rom-o-matic image for compact flash

2007-12-11 Thread Gavin McCullagh
Hi, On Tue, 11 Dec 2007, Frank Lienhard wrote: Just to mention I used (some old) puppy linux for that, I think (runs much faster on old maschines, than knoppix) I have a USB CF reader/writer on my laptop so I think I should be able to just run fdisk/format/cp/grub on /dev/sdc and then pop it

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] etherboot rom-o-matic image for compact flash

2007-12-11 Thread jam
On Tue, 2007-12-11 at 12:03 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Gavin, what worked for me (on a normal old PC) was this: I plugged in the cfcard via adapter as hda, booted a live Linux from cd and used fdisk to give the cf a ext2 file system. Than I made a /boot/grub dir on /dev/hda1 and

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] etherboot rom-o-matic image for compact flash

2007-12-11 Thread jam
On Tue, 2007-12-11 at 12:03 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just to mention I used (some old) puppy linux for that, I think (runs much faster on old maschines, than knoppix) I have a USB CF reader/writer on my laptop so I think I should be able to just run fdisk/format/cp/grub on

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP Newbie printing from other clients

2007-12-11 Thread Fajar Priyanto
On Tuesday 11 December 2007 11:48:07 Fajar Priyanto wrote: When I setup the printer using System Administration Printing. I give the printer the name: IBM. Thanks for the response. This makes me wonder, is it possible to print to a printer attached in client1 from client2? Or should I

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP Newbie printing from other clients

2007-12-11 Thread -Angga-
On Dec 12, 2007 8:10 AM, Fajar Priyanto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 11 December 2007 11:48:07 Fajar Priyanto wrote: When I setup the printer using System Administration Printing. I give the printer the name: IBM. Thanks for the response. This makes me wonder, is it possible to