Etherboot

[Jim McQuillan]

Oli,

I'll bring a couple Etherboot network cards with me to Montreal next
week, for you guys to take and test with.  In fact, I'll have a server
with me, and we can do some testing while at UBZ.

Jim McQuillan
jam at Ltsp.org



On Sat, 22 Oct 2005, Edward Holcroft wrote:

>
> On 22 Oct 2005, at 1:54 PM, Oliver Grawert wrote:
>
> > hi,
> > Am Samstag, den 22.10.2005, 13:43 +0200 schrieb Edward Holcroft:
> >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Does Edubuntu 5.10 include Etherboot support as part of a default
> > > > > > installation? I don't seem to be able to find it.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Please tell me it's so obvious that I'm looking right past it.
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > yes, edubuntu works fine with the PXE emulating etherboot images from
> > > > > http://www.rom-o-matic.net/
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > Thanks Oli. So does this mean I must program by bootroms with
> > > > the .zpxe ROM file off romomatic if I want them to work with Edubuntu?
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > > Since this thread died, I thought I'd better revive it, since I am
> > > still left wondering. My NICs are programmed with binary ROM images
> > > and fail to boot the clients (they work fine with K12LTSP, so I know
> > > it's not the NICs or the ROMs that are faulty). Are you saying that
> > > Edubuntu ONLY works with PXE ROMs?
> > >
> > sorry for the late answer... nobody in the dev team has NICs with
> > etherboot roms yet, so beyond using the rom-o-matic bootfloppies we
> > havent made tests with EPROM driven NICs i suppose it will work fine
> > with the .zpxe roms from rom-o-matic, i cant just say it will work. i'll
> > try to get my hands on a EPROM driven NIC as soon as possible to confirm
> > that.
> >
>
> Send me a physical address and it will be my pleasure to courier one off to
> you on Monday.
>
> cheers
> ed
>
>
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