RE: LTSP / remote boot trivia

rom-o-matic might help for the ROM image

http://www.rom-o-matic.net/


> -----Original Message-----

> 13. LTSP / remote boot trivia (Steve Smith)
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>
> From: Steve Smith <foodog@uswest.net>
> Subject: LTSP / remote boot trivia
>
> This is out of the blue, but discussion of LTSP brought it to mind.
>
> If you want to remote boot a terminal but don't have a boot
> ROM for your
> NIC (or don't feel like leaping through flaming hoops to
> program it) you
> can use a floppy in place of a boot ROM.
>
> Download the appropriate ROM image for your NIC and use DD to
> write it
> to a floppy disk. Since a typical ROM image is about 32kb it
> loads very
> quickly - for practical purposes it's no slower than loading
> it from ROM.
>
> It's a Lame Hack, but one that works well. ;-)
>
> Steve
>
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