D&C GLug - Home Page

[ Date Index ] [ Thread Index ] [ <= Previous by date / thread ] [ Next by date / thread => ]

Re: [LUG] EEPROM chips

 

On Saturday 27 October 2007 16:17, Rob Beard wrote:
....
>
> Not sure how many I'd need yet, possibly one to see if it works.  AFAIK
> the Etherboot image is about 16 to 32K (although I haven't created an
> image yet).  It's actually for an LTSP installation at a community
> centre and they haven't told me how many clients they want yet.
May not be the case any more but when I was a lad (creak groan) you didn't 
actually need to do a full ethernet boot for ltsp
You could boot from a floppy (and presumably hard disk/cdrom) and then get 
everything from the server so no need to burn eeproms.
Tom te tom te tom
>
> Rob


-- 
The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG
http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list
FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html