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Also remember that even though the floppy drives aren't working, you
can accomplish the same thing with the hard disk instead. What I do in
this case is pull the old box's hard disk out of it, install it in
another GNU/Linux or other UNIX-style box, and then "cat" the
Rom-O-Matic image to the hard disk, like so. This example is for the
3Com 3C905 series, and it assumes the old box's hard disk shows up as
/dev/hdb.<br>
<br>
terrell@thinclientmaker$ su - root<br>
Password: (enter root's password here)<br>
root@thinclientmaker# cat eb-5.4.4-3c90x.zdsk > /dev/hdb<br>
root@thinclientmaker# halt<br>
<br>
Then, just pop this new "EtherBoot hard disk" back into the old box and
boot from it. If you set up one box to do all your old hard disks this
way, it goes pretty quickly. I did something similar with some EIDE
Sun Ultra 5 hard disks a few years back (I used an x86 machine for the
cat'ing), and I had ten hard disks all config'd in about 20 minutes.<br>
<br>
--TP<br>
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raju VK wrote:
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cite="mid:778412130910132259u20e31b71wa35c47dc45b512db@mail.gmail.com"
type="cite">Thanks for the clarification. Hardware vendors and other
people were not sure of this. That is why I posted it. This assumes
significance as the floppy drives on al these machines are not
working. Therefore I have decided to give a try even if the query is
not answered.<br>
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with many thanks,<br>
Raju<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 8:54 AM, "Terrell
Prudé Jr." <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
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Actually, it was answered, but perhaps you're not understanding just
what it is we're saying here. Any card that supports PXE-booting is
just such a card as you describe, with its own boot ROM on it.<br>
<br>
Here's some additional information as well. If you have any 3Com 3C905
cards handy (either the original or the "B" variant), you'll notice a
socket for a chip. That socket is where you'd put the boot ROM for
that card. If you do put that in, then your PC will happily boot from
the network. Jim McQuillan sells these chips for several types of
network card, not just 3C905's. But what if you don't happen to have
that chip, and your employer will not pop for these chips? That's when
you "substitute" the boot ROM chip for a floppy disk, hard disk, or
CD-ROM with that same boot ROM image on it. It accomplishes exactly
the same thing.<br>
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Hopefully this helps to clear some things up.
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raju VK wrote:
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<div class="h5">Thanks for all the replies. But even now my
question is
not properly answered. It is simply, if I use a new network card with
boot ROM, <br>
<div>whether I can boot in to a network even if the boot options
does
not have an entry for network card as boot device.<br>
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<div>From the replies I assume the answer is negative and the
only
option is to use a boot floppy.</div>
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<div>regards,</div>
<div>Raju</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 9:48 PM, Klaus
Ade
Johnstad <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:klaus@skolelinux.no" target="_blank">klaus@skolelinux.no</a>></span>
wrote:<br>
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style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Søndag
11. oktober 2009 17.44.09 skrev raju VK :<br>
<div>
<div>> I have successfully installed the terminal
server on my fc10<br>
> desktop.. Now my question is now I can use some vintage (1998/99)<br>
> PCs as clients. The PCs has no option to boot from network. Other<br>
> wise they are still functional. If I use a network card with boot<br>
> ROM can I connect these PCs to the terminal server ?. I googling
the<br>
> net last two days does not yield any result.<br>
><br>
><br>
> with thanks in advance,<br>
> Raju<br>
><br>
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One person that is using realy old PC as clients (like i486 w/4MB ram)<br>
is Alberto Castillo from Argentina. Search the listarchives for mail<br>
from him, Alberto Castillo <<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:proyecto.edulin@gmail.com" target="_blank">proyecto.edulin@gmail.com</a>><br>
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That would be a good startin point.<br>
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