a distro designed for booting over the network

[Janina Sajka]

Well, you could use a floppy to get booted and then go to the CD ROM,
but I think a straight network boot would make more sense, if you can
swing it. The LTSP site has good info on the kinds of things that are
required to pull this off. Particularly, the K-12 site looks at old
hardware, as that's often what schools have to work with.

I did an accessibility implications report on K12LTSP last year, which
is why I'm familiar with it.

Gregory Nowak writes:
> From: Gregory Nowak <greg at romuald.net.eu.org>
> 
> repartitioning the existing drive is no longer an option, since it's
> in the trash. If it wasn't, I wouldn't be having this issue right now.
> 
> Also, when I said this machine can't boot from the cd-rom drive,
> that's literally what I meant. This machine is from 1994 I believe,
> and booting from cd-rom was just coming out at this time, and that
> option didn't make it onto this machine's bios. Also, before you ask,
> no, the bios is not flashable.
> 
> Greg
> 
> 
> On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 11:38:47PM -0000, hesco at greens.org wrote:
> > I'd suggest that a re-partitioning of your existing drive, so that the /boot and / directories fall completely below the 1024 cylender cut-off is also an option.  Or alternately to go into the setup screen for your BIOS at boot up and enable booting from CD-ROM.  
> > 
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