----- Original Message ----- From: "mslicker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Kai Schmidt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Arthur H. Johnson II" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2002 11:34 AM Subject: Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Incredible Shrinking Motherboard
> I was looking at it earlier in that day. I'm not sure but it appears to > me that it is using an AWARD BIOS. > Can you flash it with etherboot or something? I am not sure how etherboot > works. I did flash other award bioses with etherboot, but of course the NIC VIA VT6103 must be supported by etherboot. VIA Techn. adhere pretty much to (linux) standards ... >From a DOS bootable disk with tools AFLASH.exe and CBROM6.exe you can backup the original bios to diskette and put in the NIC-Rom module from etherboot (if any). Etherboot booting functionality is the present and LTSP will take over. Kai > --Matthew > > > On Thu, 14 Mar 2002, Kai Schmidt wrote: > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Arthur H. Johnson II" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 8:11 PM > > Subject: [Ltsp-discuss] Incredible Shrinking Motherboard > > > > > > > Slashdot is running a story about a integrated Motherboard that is half > > > the size of FlexATX. Any chance of this having PXE on board? For 100 > > > bones, this would make Terminal Servers even MORE cost effective. > > > > > > http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/03/13/1531248 > > > > This mobo could very well become the "new ltsp-client HW"! After a short > > lecture of the specs, I did not find bios details (award?, to put etherboot > > on) and do not know if the on board ethernet chip VIA VT6103 is supported by > > etherboot. But since "full range linux" is mentioned I think/hope lan and > > graphic should be ok. The VIA Eden processor and other componets seem > > standard enough. > > Is someone at the CeBit to check Via Technologies this? > > > > Ciao > > > > Kai _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.openprojects.net
