a distro designed for booting over the network

[Keith Watson]

Yea, the lts is a really kewl project. I created a boot image 
that i wish i could have gotten onto an eprom, but it worked fine 
from a floppy. I was able to set the server up and then have the 
terminals boot into both X and console moded. Was a fun project, 
too bad it got cancel because of lack of interest by management. 
They went the Citrix route. Yuck!

On 09:50 PM, Janina Sajka wrote:
> 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.  
> > > 
> > > -- Hugh 
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