Well the truth is I'm wanting the high powered geek solution since I'm fiddling to make the terminal machine send out a Wake on LAN to the server, (anyone got experience with that??) So when that works I'll burn a boot ROM, so second drive is only required for this development stage. Synco
On Fri, 26 Dec 2003 00:34, you wrote: > 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. -- Synco Reynders Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mobile: +64 21 1825332 Phone: +64 3 371 7592
