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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 > > Floppies are not the most reliable medium and when you are talking about LTSP in schools / community centres, you can get through a box full of floppies in a day as they go "walkies" or get vandalized. Much better to have a boot rom ..... if you can get them. Tom (The older). -- 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