[K12OSN] boot from local ntfs HD

[Jim Kronebusch]

I use a program called BootIt NG from www.terabyteunlimited.com to do my
multiple boot systems.  For the cost of $40 it makes an excellent boot
manager and a real cool partitioning tool.  Very awesome.  But if you
want to save the $40 I would think you could just partition the drive
into one large drive for your NT install, then a very small drive to
house the image from your etherboot floppy.  My guess would be you could
then copy all the files from the etherboot floppy into the small
partition, and then load Windows NT on the larger partition.  If NT
doesn't detect it on install and automatically add it to the boot.ini,
just open the boot.ini in notepad and add another line for the small
partition.

[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Microsoft Windows 2000
Professional" /fastdetect
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\LTSP="LTSP Thin Client" /fastdetect

Not sure if this would work, but I don't see why it wouldn't.

-----Original Message-----
From: k12osn-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:k12osn-bounces at redhat.com] On
Behalf Of Doug Gough
Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2004 11:34 AM
To: robark at telus.net; A technical support and discussion community for
users of the K12OS Linux distribution.
Subject: RE: [K12OSN] boot from local ntfs HD


> My lab has Windows NT installed on the clients. I want a dual
> boot setup. 
> Instead of using a floppy with rom-o-matic, I want to boot 
> off the local hard 
> drives by modifying boot.ini and put the rom-o-matic file on 
> the hard drive. 
> I have not done this and would like some help.  I have heard 
> it's possible 
> but I don't know if it will work on ntfs. Has anyone done this??
> 
> Robert

You could run Cygwin on the NT machines and use it to connect to the
K12LTSP server. This would require that the user boot into NT, and then
run Cygwin, and inside Cygwin run xwin with the correct query string.
Most of this could be scripted, I imagine, but it may still be too much
overhead. Still, this sounds like a lot more work than just making a
whack of boot floppies and handing them out at the beginning of class.


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