[K12OSN] Adding Thin Client boot option to a Windows box

[Luis Montes]

David Trask wrote:

>"Support list for opensource software in schools." <k12osn at redhat.com> on
>Sunday, November 21, 2004 at 12:22 PM +0000 wrote:
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>>>  Sometimes it is a lab full of Windows computers, that just need
>>>  dual-boot (to LTSP) capability added.
>>>      
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>The easiest way?  Do what I do in my lab.....make etherboot floppies for
>each machine...when you want K12LTSP....boot from the
>floppy...otherwise...pop it out and use Win XP on the local HD.  Haven't
>had a stolen floppy in over a year.  We use K12LTSP 75% of the day so the
>discs stay in almost all day.  Nonetheless....truthfully...no one uses
>floppies anymore so the motive to steal them is gone.  Most of our kids
>simply save to the server, email, or USB thumb drives.  
>
>David N. Trask
>Technology Teacher/Coordinator
>Vassalboro Community School
>dtrask at vcs.u52.k12.me.us
>(207)923-3100
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I'm using Freedos + an etherboot .com image on some machines. (until I 
buy bootable nics for those)
I built a sysrescd.org based CD to help automate this if anyone's 
interested. Its just the rescue cd and all the 5.2.5 bootroms with a a 
couple of text files explaining which rom goes with which nic, and a 
text editor for freedos to write an autoexec.bat to launch the rom.

Haven't tried dual-booting freedos with anything yet though. Imagine it 
shouldn't be to hard.

Luis