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Tom Potts wrote: > 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 > > Yeah it still works, I tried that last night and picked the wrong Reaktek 8139 network card (I picked the 8139B) which wouldn't boot. I didn't give up though, I installed a basic install of Debian, scp'd over another Etherboot image (the .zhd image) and used dd to write the image onto a spare partition. Works lovely with Grub, I just tell Grub to boot the partition. The machine I was playing with does have a floppy drive although I didn't have any spare floppies to hand. I did wonder if another solution would be so pop in a small (say 16MB) Compact Flash card and IDE adaptor. 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