On Fri, 26 Dec 2003 00:01, you wrote: > Hi guys, > I'm stuck on formulating a command to access to a remote floppy drive. > The setup: > I've got the LTSP running and currently the client machine boots from > floppy. Unfortunitly the floppy drive came from my main server machine and > it's getting annoying swapping it back and forth. So the obvious solution > is to keep the drive in the remote client and then be smart and access it > remotely. Having failed the 'be smart' criteria I'm wimpering for how-elp?? > Synco
Actually, the obvious solution is to install a boot ROM in the network card in the terminal machine and use that to boot it. The floppy drive can then be moved back to the server. SICOM in Antigua St. have the facilities to program PROMs. The other easy solution is to get yourself another floppy drive. $5 for a s/h one wouldn't break the bank would it? The truely horrid, or depending on tour point of view, high powered geek solution is to fiddle about with the LTSP file set so that you can remote mount the floppy in the terminal on to the file system in the server using NFS or something. imho time consuming and definitely _not_ recommended. -- Sincerely etc. Christopher Sawtell NB. This PC runs Linux. If you find a virus apparently from me, it has forged the e-mail headers on someone else's machine. Please do not notify me when this occurs. Thanks.
