Etherboot on Ubuntu LTSP

[Edward Holcroft]

On 07 Nov 2005, at 6:52 PM, Oliver Grawert wrote:

> hi,
> On So, 2005-11-06 at 17:43 +0200, Jonathan Carter wrote:
>> I'm trying to make etherboot (without PXE emulation) to work in  
>> Edubuntu.
>> I've replaced in dhcpd.conf:
>> filename "/ltsp/pxelinux.0";
> you shouldnt edit the files by hand, if you have mknbi (from universe)
> installed to generate the etherboot image, sudo ltsp-update-kernels
> should automatically generate a etherboot image instead of pxe ...

Will this functionality be included in Edubuntu by default in some  
release down the line - without having to run any additional  
routines, that is.

>
> i couldnt test this yet, but was just given two etherboot NICs by jim
> McQuillan from the ltsp guys, i'll start playing with them as soon as
> i'm back in germany...

That's very decent of them.

cheers
ed