On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 08:23, Peter Rundle wrote:
> G'day,
>
> I'm trying to setup a VMware virtual machine to act as the diskless
> client as I have no other hardware to try. I've pointed it's floppy
> device to be a file on disk created by,
>
> $ cat eb-5.2.2-pcnetfastiii.zdsk >bootfloppy.dsk
>
> But when I boot the Vmware client I get this after the usual Bios screen
>
> Loading ROM Image..
> 0224 AX:0212 BX:2200 CX:0001 DX01000
> .
> 0224 AX:0212 BX:2200 CX:0001 DX01000
> .
>
> repeated very rapidly indefinitely. The Vmware machine is configured
> with a fixed MAC address. (V 2.0.4 btw bit dated but it works).
>
> I downloaded & installed the latest LTSP using the wget script, (how
> cool is that!) and have installed and run ltspcfg (I'm running Redhat
> 9). Installed the kernels in /tftpboot/lts etc so my installation is
> very normal except that I've got my DHCP server on another machine.
> However I'm pretty confident it's working, the important part of it's
> dhcpd.conf file looks like,
>
> # Diskless Nodes
> #
> group {
> use-host-decl-names on;
> option log-servers 192.168.1.10;
>
> host vmware {
> option host-name "vmware";
> hardware ethernet 00:50:56:23:01:01;
> fixed-address 192.168.1.161;
> filename "/lts/vmlinuz-2.4.22-ltsp-1";
> next-server 192.168.1.10;
> }
>
> Any cluesticks? To up to date a version of etherboot perhaps?
>
> TIA's
>
> Pete
I tried this once.
what i found was that with a floppyimage on file i coudn't make it work.
But if i took the same floppy image, and wrote on a actual floppy, and
booted from that, it worked...
Have no idea why.
the image was a fairly recent rom-o-matic one
good luck
> --
> Ronny Aasen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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