[K12OSN] newbie trouble booting thin clients

[Doug Simpson]

You must be sitting in the same directory where the ennet522.dsk file is 
before that will work, also, you must be able to read the file 
(permissions, here) and you must have write access to the floppy.

I simply do this kind of stuff as root and then there are very few 
permission problems.

DS

On Tue, 13 Jul 2004, Will Hatch wrote:

> Thanks for the tip on the universal boot floppy.  This is what I need, since I have an assortment of potential thin clients with different nic cards.  My problem is I can't seem to make these boot floppys.  I downloaded the file to my home, I open it up, I read the readme file... it says "under Linux: cp ebnet522.dsk /dev/fd0" 
> 
> so, when I type in my terminal window "cp ennet522.dsk /dev/fd0" it says "cp: cannot stat `ebnet522.dsk': No such file or directory"
> 
> What am I doing wrong?
> 
> 
> 
> 
> > 
> > From: Les Mikesell <les at futuresource.com>
> > Date: 2004/07/13 Tue AM 10:21:38 EDT
> > To: "Support list for opensource software in schools." <k12osn at redhat.com>
> > Subject: Re: [K12OSN] newbie trouble booting thin clients
> > 
> > On Tue, 2004-07-13 at 08:08, Jim Hays wrote:
> > > The new NIC SHOULD take care of the problem.  I would get them booting with a
> > > boot floppy first to make sure that the computers will indeed work - they
> > > should.  Go to www.rom-o-matic.com and make a boot floppy for the NIC that is in
> > > the boxes.  Get them booting to the floppies and then decide if you want to buy
> > > the new NICs.
> > 
> > Or follow the 'universal network boot floppy' link for the thinstation
> > project: http://thinstation.sourceforge.net/download.html.
> > It has 30+ drivers and should boot about anything.
> > 
> > ---
> >   Les Mikesell
> >    les at futuresource.com
> > 
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Doug Simpson
Technology Specialist
DeQueen Public Schools
DeQueen, AR 71832
simpsond at leopards.k12.ar.us
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