Hello Matt, Wednesday, June 18, 2003, 12:43:47 AM, you wrote:
> Hi i've had a look through the archives for an answer to this one but couldnt find > anything :( > Is it posible to boot a machine using ltsp, and have it give a menu to boot from > various boot media? > e.g. option 1 boot to local harddrive > option 2 boot to network If you use etherboot, yes. If it is 5.0.x you are using, it's a built-in feature, for the 5.1.x series you'd need an external menu program. (If you want rudimentary support, the ASK_BOOT option would suffice, I guess, but having passwords or different images to be booted from net requires "real" menu support) > also is it posible to boot (via ltsp) to a boot image file, and have it act as if > this was booted localy? > I am wanting to boot ether to a mini dist of linux or a image file of a NortonGhost > disk, to allow restoring of hard drive images over the network. You don't boot "via ltsp", but "via etherboot", I think. AFAIK it's possible to load a "disk image" (dos-based ones) and boot it, simulating a local disk drive. > the workstations will all be the same spec and would normaly boot to windoz, but i > want to be able to restore the image using ltsp and network access. I rolled my own netboot-file (from a slightly modified kernel, significantly one with IDE-Harddisk support compiled in, and a slightly modified initrd) - it's not nice to look at, but as it can only be booted by the local admin (password required), that's no matter. Just now it's past midnight here in Bonn, so the machine's off (shutting down weekdays at 3 PM, weekends at 11:30 AM, auto-booting daily 7:30 AM). If you are interested in my solution, I'd be able to fetch it this morning (the one to come :-) and post it... It's in my case prepared for a lab of all 486ers with 510 MB harddrive each. If you plan on using the etherboot menu feature (I'm sure it's documented in etherboot context rather than in ltsp context), questions should better be posted to the etherboot-users list than here, as it meets the list topics better there. > Thanks > matt lowe > ltsp (at) mlsis.co.uk Best regards, Anselm Martin Hoffmeister Stockholm Projekt Computer-Service <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: INetU Attention Web Developers & Consultants: Become An INetU Hosting Partner. Refer Dedicated Servers. We Manage Them. You Get 10% Monthly Commission! INetU Dedicated Managed Hosting http://www.inetu.net/partner/index.php _____________________________________________________________________ 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
