<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Hardware don't grow on trees, Mel; unlike software, hardware costs money to reproduce. If you want a hardware solution, you gotta pay for it. Jim McQuillan's saving you a ton already! You want him to just *donate* the chips to you on top of that? Eighteen dollars--that's pocket change. Take a small piece of that truckload of money that you're saving by not going with MS Windows/Office and use that to fund your EEPROM purchase. Geez...! <div class="moz-signature">_______________________________ Do you GNU!? <a href="http://www.gnu.org/">Microsoft Free since 2003</a>--the ultimate antivirus protection! </div> Mel Wade wrote: <blockquote cite="mid43080f460701110950w7ee4d251occbe487b17ea394@mail.gmail.com" type="cite">That is what I'm doing right now. We removed the eject buttons from the drives. I'd like to get to a hardware only solution eventually. Mel <div>On 1/11/07, Petre Scheie <<a href="mailto:petre@maltzen.net">petre@maltzen.net</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">You could also use the Universal Boot Floppy to boot the clients, as floppy disks are pretty cheap. If you're worried about the kids taking the floppy out, put the drive inside the case where it's inaccessible. Not as quick or reliable as a boot prom, but your priority seems to be price. Petre Tim Born wrote: > Mel - > > If you need more than a few, you might invest in a chip burner, snag the > boot code from rom-o-matic and use the guide from etherboot project: > <a href="http://www.etherboot.org/wiki/burningroms">http://www.etherboot.org/wiki/burningroms</a> > > If you get all that working you can source boot rom chips for the rest > of us. > > -tim > > > Mel Wade wrote: > >> That's more than the cost of the rest of the client hardware combined. >> >> On 1/11/07, *"Terrell Prudé Jr."* < <a href="mailto:microman@cmosnetworks.com"> microman@cmosnetworks.com</a> >> <mailto:<a href="mailto:microman@cmosnetworks.com">microman@cmosnetworks.com</a>>> wrote: >> >> Umm...what's wrong with $18? That ain't that much. Hell, I call >> it a bargain! Try buying a single copy of XP or Vista for >> that...oh, and the computer to run it.... >> >> Oh yeah, and that $18 also helps to pay for their development cost >> to make something called LTSP for you to use. >> >> --TP >> _______________________________ >> Do you GNU!? >> Microsoft Free since 2003 <<a href="http://www.gnu.org/"> http://www.gnu.org/</a>>--the ultimate >> antivirus protection! >> >> >> Mel Wade wrote: >> >>> Does anyone know an affordable eprom source. >>> DisklessWorkstations wants $18/each for theirs. Their >>> justification is that they go all over the world promoting LTSP >>> and the sales from their site fund that. Personally, I'm not >>> interested in funding their world travels... >>> >>> Anyway I have some 3com 3c905TX and 3c905TX-MN cards that I need >>> eeprom chips for... >>> >>> -- Mel Wade >>> "The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men >>> do." - BF Skinner >>> <a href="http://www.melwade.com">http://www.melwade.com</a> >>> >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> K12OSN mailing list >>> <a href="mailto:K12OSN@redhat.com">K12OSN@redhat.com</a> <mailto:<a href="mailto:K12OSN@redhat.com"> K12OSN@redhat.com</a>> >>> <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn</a> >>> For more info see <<a href="http://www.k12os.org">http://www.k12os.org </a>> >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> K12OSN mailing list >> <a href="mailto:K12OSN@redhat.com">K12OSN@redhat.com</a> <mailto: <a href="mailto:K12OSN@redhat.com">K12OSN@redhat.com</a>> >> <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn</a> >> For more info see < <a href="http://www.k12os.org">http://www.k12os.org</a>> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> Mel Wade >> "The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do." - >> BF Skinner >> <a href="http://www.melwade.com">http://www.melwade.com</a> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> K12OSN mailing list >> <a href="mailto:K12OSN@redhat.com">K12OSN@redhat.com</a> >> <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn</a> >> For more info see <<a href="http://www.k12os.org">http://www.k12os.org</a>> >> > > _______________________________________________ > K12OSN mailing list > <a href="mailto:K12OSN@redhat.com"> K12OSN@redhat.com</a> > <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn</a> > For more info see <<a href="http://www.k12os.org">http://www.k12os.org</a> > > _______________________________________________ K12OSN mailing list <a href="mailto:K12OSN@redhat.com">K12OSN@redhat.com</a> <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn </a> For more info see <<a href="http://www.k12os.org">http://www.k12os.org</a>> </blockquote> </div> -- Mel Wade "The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do." - BF Skinner <a href="http://www.melwade.com">http://www.melwade.com</a> <pre wrap=""> <hr size="4" width="90%"> _______________________________________________ K12OSN mailing list <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:K12OSN@redhat.com">K12OSN@redhat.com</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn</a> For more info see <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="http://www.k12os.org"><http://www.k12os.org></a></pre> </blockquote> </body> </html>