Michael C. Robinson I've made a good deal of progress. I've made new etherboot images that allow me to select which operating system image I want to netboot and I've also added local boot bypass. There are some configuration options that have to be changed before getting the images from www.rom-o-matic.net.
There are two gotchas with the mandrake, network dos howto. I couldn't get the dhcp to work without adding a filename=/lts/vmlinuz, strangely enough the menu still works with this line in. The other gotcha is that I don't use netware and it is a real pain to not be able to use your local floppy drive if you don't have access to a network filesystem. Is there a way to add samba support to a dos 6.2 net boot image? How about a windows 98 se, just the system disk with some partitioning and format utilities, image? One gotcha is I need to get boot proms made because the local boot option will just boot etherboot again if you don't pop the disk out. I have a realtek 8029 pci card made by phoebe. I also need boot proms for the de220pt isa cards made by D-Link and the netgear fa311. The fa311 is a problem because where there is a pin out for a boot prom there isn't a socket. I don't know if desoldering the pin out and then soldering in a socket will destroy one of these cards or not. Even if I do solder in a socket, I don't know when I put in a bootprom in if the card will detect it. I'm thinking about setting up a net boot image of a tom's root boot disk as I don't know how else to network boot a linux system that will allow me to dump the local partitions to a remote tape drive. There's something about adding access to a local floppy drive, maybe something similar can be done for the local harddisks under ltsp. ------------------------------------------------------- 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.freenode.net
