Robert Arkiletian wrote: > On Nov 12, 2007 12:20 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hello, >> Any suggestion about booting a LTSP client using the hard drive and the >> partition in which XP is installed? >> I tried putting an etherboot .com file in C: and modifying boot.ini adding >> the >> line >> C:\eb-r8169.com="LinuxLTSP" >> but this does not work. > > The way I did it was to shrink the XP partition by just a little bit. > All you need is a few MB for a ext2 partition at the end of the drive. > You can do this with a live cd like gparted. > > Then see this > http://k12ltsp.org/mediawiki/index.php/Technical:Booting:Client:LiLo > but don't put lilo on mbr of hda but rather on the new ext2 partition. > Then follow this > http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Dual_Boot_from_Windows_Bootloader_(NTLDR)_and_why#Fooling_Windows_2 > you may have to adapt it slightly but it should provide enough info to > work. I did it this way so I know it works. But I have to say it's a > lot of work for just booting. I would have prefered just to buy > etherboot bootroms from diskless workstations and be done with it. > Then simply choose your boot device from the a bios menu. (usually > something like F10) > Or (if students don't require floppies) install the floppies in the > case internally and put lilo on the floppy. (leave floppy tab write > disabled) >
And speaking of resizing the NTFS partition, there's a handy defrag utility that will actually move files to the beginning of the partition (unlike the built-in defrag on Windows). It's called DirMS and you can find it here: http://www.dirms.com/ -Rob ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _____________________________________________________________________ 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
