Diskless Linux

[Judd Barnard]

You should look into etherboot on freshmeat or sourceforge.
Judd.

foodog@uswest.net wrote:

>   We used to boot DOS/Win3 and Macs using bootROMs.  The
> ones I liked the best were from a Canadian company called
> LANWorks, the product was called BootWare - I think they
> were swallowed by 3Com a few years ago.
>
>   If you go to Intel's web site and search on "PXE" for Pre
> eXecution Environment, you should be able to download a
> development kit for programming bootROMs that includes a
> TFTPD daemon for Linux.
>
>   The nice thing about the BootWare ROMs was that they were
> configurable from both the keyboard and a DOS program.  You
> could select the ethernet frametype, whether or not to use
> their proprietary system called MSD (don't remember it's
> specifics) and another set of utilities (multiboot) that
> would give you a boot image that displayed a menu of
> available boot images.  Fun stuff.
>
> Steve
> "Robert N. Eaton" wrote:
> >
> > plug@arcticmail.com wrote:
> > >
> > > Someone at the meeting tonight wanted to know
> > > how one could boot/run Linux on a system with
> > > no floppy, no CD-ROM drive, and no hard disk.
> > >
> > > Here is an (ancient) package that can demonstrate
> > > one possible way to accomplish this via RPL:
> > >
> > > http://sorry.vse.cz/dimension/rdos/dxt/
> > >
> > > D
> > >
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> > There is also a fairly interesting how-to for creating a 1-floppy,
> > hard-diskless 486 firewall(12-16 meg memory) at:
> > www.zdnet.com/zdhelp/stories/main/0,5594,2503199,00.html
> >
> > It also describes a method (new to me, maybe not to others) for writing
> > 1.6 megs onto a 1.44 meg floppy.
> >
> > Bob Eaton
> >
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