[K12OSN] Affordable Eprom source

[Petre Scheie]

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:
> http://www.etherboot.org/wiki/burningroms
> 
> 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."* < microman at cmosnetworks.com 
>> <mailto:microman at cmosnetworks.com>> 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
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>>
>>     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
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>> Mel Wade
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>> BF Skinner
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