On Mon, 2002-11-18 at 20:44, Stefan Becker wrote:
> subject:: using Etherboot Methode with Windows NT
> 
> Greetings List,
> I am booting a number of installations with etherboot 'boot'-images from
> floopy.
> Do any of you know of a methode to correctly place the image on an Windows
> NT system and use the windows NT-Boot loader to launch the etherboot-image?
> 


I am currently looking into this very topic.  I have a Compaq Evo T20
thin client which has window nte (the embedded version) on it.  I can't
find a free partitioning tool to allow me to put a small linux partition
on the flash disk, so I am attempting exactly what you describe.

My plan is to use the nt loader to load lilo (well documented in various
windows nt + linux faqs).  The twist for me is that the etherboot image
will need to live on the NT filesystem.  Lilo doesn't currently have the
ability to read ntfs, so my choices are to either hack NTFS support into
lilo or figure out a way to manually enter the blocks that the etherboot
image will occupy.  The former is more robust but harder.  The latter is
probably easier, but prone to error.

I started looking into this about an hour ago, so (as you can see) I
haven't clearly formulated my plan yet...


/Tad 

-- 
Tad Truex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>


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