Christopher Sawtell 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.
I haven't set it up yet but I will be following these directions:
http://ltsp.org/documentation/floppyd.html to access the local floppy on
a ltsp client from programs running on the server - which is what you
want to do I think.
The other option to boot roms is to find your self some NICs that support
PXE and use it to boot 1 of etherboot/pxegrub/pxelinux and then ltsp. I
am using etherboot in this manner for a suite of 10 diskless clients.
/chris
