From: Anselm Martin Hoffmeister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Boot & etherboot
> Can a floppy-etherboot-image be placed on a hard disk (compact flash
card)
> and boot the same as a floppy does. Naturally the 'disk' is empty, but
for
> the boot image.
> lilo/grub work fine, but I need to get lots of disks made in remote
locations
> by folk following the recipe. Of course its much more tricky too - no
floppy,
> no cdrom, no real hard-disk: USB support (floppies, cdroms etc) and
lan.
> So if lilo looks like the *right answer*, I accept, but would like an
easier
> option.
>I don't understand exactly what your plans are. Do you want to put
>etherboot on a CompactFlash that is connected via USB?
>If yes: As long as the Bios uses it "like" a floppy or a hard disk
>while booting, there is no problem with etherboot on that medium - At
>least those 5.0 which use the BIOS for floppy boot loading (correct me
>if wrong) should work. 5.1 could be more picky as it addresses
>hardware more directly (IIRC).
>
>Why not give it a try?
Hello;
I have done something similar, but this was with a
Disk-On-Chip from M-Systems. I installed FreeDOS
to boot from the chip and replaced COMMAND.COM
with an etherboot image. Works fine.
I would prefer to use an Etherboot image directly
(without having to use FreeDOS to load it).
The floppy bootable image should work if written to the
boot sector of a normal hard disk with a Linux command
like this (Is this right?):
# cat eb-5.0.10-yournic.lzdsk > /dev/hda1
Another issue is: How to perform this write from DOS?
(I haven't been able to compile a kernel that will
mount the Disk-On-Chip filesystem.)
Thanks in advance,
Tom
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