[K12OSN] Booting older thin clients
Michael Blinn
mblinn at peopleplaces.org
Tue Feb 20 20:38:05 UTC 2007
Yeah, my adult users would lose the CDs (;
Does the NIC with bootrom route require a semi-new BIOS that can
recognize a NIC as a boot device? If not, from a purely intellectual
standpoint, how does the computer know to boot from it?
Thanks Petre,
Michael
Petre Scheie wrote:
> You can boot a thin client from a CD, just like you can boot one from
> a floppy disk. And you can still use the CD drive and the floppy
> drive for Local Device Access (LDA). But there are some tradeoffs.
> First, to use the CD or floppy drive, users will have to remove the
> boot CD/floppy, which means they're going to lose the CD/floppy or
> scratch/break it or forget to put it back in, etc. If your users are
> all adults, this might, MIGHT be manageable; but if your users are
> kids, I think you'll find it frustrating. BTW, LDA does not support
> music CDs in the clients.
>
> You can buy a NIC with a bootrom for $20 at disklessworkstations.com.
> These are great, and you never have to worry about losing the boot
> media. Of course, using an etherboot CD or floppy is cheaper, so it
> really depends on what your priority is.
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