Re: [LUG] linux in schools - terminal ... man

[Andrew Rogers <andrew@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Steve Marvell wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 01, 2002 at 10:59:25PM +0100, Andrew Rogers wrote:
>
> > http://www.ltsp.org
>
> Took a good look, but I'm abbit confused about this whole "etherboot"
> lark. I'm not sure how to do that at all.

Without a harddrive or any other bootable drive you can't boot. But you
can also boot from a ROM chip. This ROM plugs into the ethernet card.
The system is booted from this ROM and has a TFTP (Trivial FTP) client
that downloads a kernel from a server. You can also put Etherboot on a
floppy disk if you don't have facilities to program ROMs.

Check out the link below or more info on Etherboot.

http://etherboot.sourceforge.net/ 

-- 
Andrew Rogers
http://www.rogerstech.co.uk

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