Hi all,
I've a strange idea.. We have lots of different types of legacy pcs we need to join our K12LTSP as thin clients..
Rather than detecting the network card, finding the appropriate disk, etc.. Is there a way to create something of a "thick etherboot floppy"?
If you have some recent etherboot sourcecode:
make bin/etherboot.zdsk
and you're done. It creates a floppy image for all (?) etherboot drivers at once. This makes loading the floppy slower of course, as the physical disk has to be read and everything needs to be detected (fast for PCI, really slow for ISA probably).
This may be a fine solution for first time boots; then probably a specialised disk that only contains drivers that you own the hardware for will be interesting.
You can create a floppy for exactly e.g. rtl8139, sis900, rtl8169 with the commandline
make bin/rtl8139--sis900--rtl8169.zdsk
at least with current etherboot versions.
I suppose this would involve user mode etherbooting? Has this ever been done?
No linux involved until etherboot loads the kernel via network.
HTH
Anselm
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