[K12OSN] Affordable Eprom source
Mel Wade
mel at melwade.com
Thu Jan 11 17:50:13 UTC 2007
That is what I'm doing right now. We removed the eject buttons from the
drives. I'd like to get to a hardware only solution eventually.
Mel
On 1/11/07, Petre Scheie <petre at maltzen.net> wrote:
>
> 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
> >>> http://www.melwade.com
> >>>
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Mel Wade
"The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do." - BF
Skinner
http://www.melwade.com
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