dear all,
for the record, i tried your suggestion of:
#dd if=/dev/*.zdsk of=/dev/hdb
this on a hd with no partitions. it did not work.
then, also created a small partition made active, and tried:
#dd if=/dev/*.zdsk of=/dev/hdb1
did not work.
in both cases the error is the same, the hex code that shows the pc has
found nothing on the hardisk to boot.
so here's the brute-force fix that works, but it is not the solution:
took the hardisk, that boots an ltsp workstation and cloned it to the
second hardisk.
#dd if=/dev/hdb of=/dev/hdc
this works, but i still don't know how or why.
so for the moment, the client is happy as his workstations are gonna get
converted to ltsp workstations.
for the record, about that original, working hardisk.
a few months ago, i was trying the same objective, (boot an ltsp
workstation from a hardisk, as if it's a boot floppy).
during my experiments, had also tried a lilo boot on it. so it still has
a 500mb RH8 install, with an additional unformatted 3.5gb.
when the pc boots, it shows no lilo or grub, and immediately boots via
ltsp.
stupid of me, i just forgot to write down my steps, and don't know how i
did it.
so, what is it that i must look for, on this pc? so i know how it is
done.
??
LL
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