My only additional comment, make sure it comes back to the menu if you select the 
wrong one.  That's a pet peeve of mine I guess.

Thanks,
JSR/

On Wed, 5 Mar 2003 23:38:10 +0100
Anselm Martin Hoffmeister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> scripted:

> Hello J Bao,
> 
> Saturday, March 01, 2003, 3:13:06 AM, you wrote:
> 
> > Why not put all ROM into a cdrom iso image, this CD should come with a very
> > simple boot kernel (only first few steps), after boot from CD, using your
> > arrow key to select/try the right ROM. It would make the setting of LTSP easy.
> 
> That could be a job for you. It's not to difficult to prepare such a
> cdrom (could even be a floppy). Get some DOS bootable diskette (will
> work with ms-dos from win9x), use the "menu" structure and the dos
> executable file format that rom-o-matic provides...
> 
> Right from the head, start like this (read test/control/read docs
> first) (look onto the w95 boot disk for example)
> 
> ---<config.sys
> [menu]
> menuitem=RTL8139,RTL-8139 network board
> menuitem=RHINE,Via-Rhine network board
> [common]
> --->
> 
> ---<autoexec.bat
> if %MENU"==RTL8139" goto RTL8139
> if %MENU"==RHINE" goto RHINE
> exit
> :RTL8139
> eb-r8139.com
> exit
> :RHINE
> eb-rhine.com
> exit
> --->
> 
> If you have a working floppy like that, you could use linux tools to
> make a el-torito-bootable-cdrom from it, but even Windows software can
> do that, "Nero" did for me without complaint some time ago.
> 
> Best regards,
>  Anselm                            mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 
> 
> 
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