A previous poster http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=ltsp-discuss&m=102716111111578&w=2 stated "You can make a lilo image of Etherboot and then install lilo onto the harddrive in order to boot both diskless and win98."
I have a PC where I want to do the same trick using GRUB - if I get it working, I'll post a note here (unless some kind person has already done it and shares the trick with us...) John On Sat, 9 Nov 2002 18:01:31 -0800 (PST) pedro noticioso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes thats the easyest and it is what I had in a floppy > but, what about its equal in linux? > > how may I make a linux boot hard drive instead of a > dos boot hard drive? > > whats the linux equivalent for autoexec.bat, what > barebones linux image may be usefull for me to just dd > to a hard disk, to put my romomatic file into, so I > can simply install the newly edited hard drive on the > terminal and forget about it? > > --- Geoff Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I did the same thing last week. > > > > In the end I created a 100Mb partition on each drive > > (I know it could > > have been smaller, but 100Mb is fine), formatted it > > so it boots DOS. I > > used MSDOS, in retro I could have used DR-DOS. Like > > it matters. Anyway, > > I created a .com file from www.rom-o-matic.com, and > > then use > > autoexec.bat to run the .com file. It works for me. > > > > Probably not the most elegant way of doing it, but > > it gets them booting > > until I get the bootroms working. > > > > Geoff > > > > pedro noticioso wrote: > > > > > Hi there all, I am just starting with ltsp and > > have > > > been booting from a floppy, it is pretty straight > > > forward. > > > > > > I have not been able to find the eprom locally, so > > > while I do more research I chose to boot the > > terminal > > > from the hard drive. > > > > > > The closest I have found is this text > > > > > > > > > http://etherboot.sourceforge.net/doc/html/lilo+etherboot-2.html > > > > > > But I see it a little confusing, for now I have > > > installed the terminals hard disk on the server, > > > successfully > > > > > > cfdisk > > > > > > it and > > > > > > mkfs.ext2 -c /dev/hdc1 > > > > > > successfully, is there a simple instructions on > > how to > > > procede? Im scared of blowing my server with lilo > > > commands 8/ > > > > > > btw, I actually dd from the floppys eb image to > > the hd > > > but that didnt work hehehe > > > > > > > > > __________________________________________________ > > > Do you Yahoo!? > > > U2 on LAUNCH - Exclusive greatest hits videos > > > http://launch.yahoo.com/u2 > > > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > > > This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek > > > Welcome to geek heaven. > > > http://thinkgeek.com/sf > > > > > > _____________________________________________________________________ > > > 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 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > > This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek > > Welcome to geek heaven. > > http://thinkgeek.com/sf > > > _____________________________________________________________________ > > 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 > > > __________________________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > U2 on LAUNCH - Exclusive greatest hits videos > http://launch.yahoo.com/u2 > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek > Welcome to geek heaven. > http://thinkgeek.com/sf > _____________________________________________________________________ > 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 ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _____________________________________________________________________ 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
