RE: lilo/grub to use bootp/remote root doable?
I guess you could configure a boot menu through config.sys... I don't
have information about that at hand right now, but if you want I can
search a bit about that..
If the computers have Windows 98 I believe that by making a boot floppy
you get a boot menu in the config.sys of those floppies, so you could
use those as something to start with.
Hope this works for you..
-Ronald
-----Original Message-----
From: Michel Loos [mailto:loos@qt1.iq.usp.br]
Sent: viernes, 05 de julio de 2002 14:30
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: lilo/grub to use bootp/remote root doable?
Hi,
I am currently transforming a park of obsolete winxx desktops to
x-terminals. The users want to keep, at least for some time, winxx
on their machines.
I installed a bootp like mechanism on the dhcp server, the kernels are
loaded through tftpd and the root fs is on the X - servers.
All this works fine, but the users complain of having to "boot" through
a floppy (Etherboot).
Burning EPROMs for the NICs that have a socket would be a good solution,
but most computers use on-board NICs.
Current idea: Is it possible, without repartionning the HDs which are
totally occupied by Winxx, to install a lilo or grub etc. in the MBR in
order to use the Etherboot ?
Thanks
Michel.
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