On Sunday 01 April 2007 06:22, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Noel wrote: > > BUT you need to be sure that the BIOS of the 486/Pentium computer > > supports booting from network card. Please double-check that before > > buying the netword cards or the bootROMs. > > So how do i figure this out ??? - go into bios setup and check i suppose > > would this not being enabled make these machines unusable - is there a > work around
Actually the BIOS is not involved. Provided the correct header is present on your network card is is supposed to be run. So network-boot depends on the correct rom header (and definitly some BIOS's break the rules, so YMMV) James ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _____________________________________________________________________ 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
