Thanks Chris, That's exactly what I was looking for. Synco On Sat, 27 Dec 2003 10:55, you wrote: > 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
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