[K12OSN] Need Help
"Terrell Prudé Jr."
microman at cmosnetworks.com
Sat Jul 7 23:32:30 UTC 2007
Rob Owens wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 07, 2007 at 09:16:26AM -0600, Don Gould wrote:
>
>> I'm hoping to boot Linux off of 3.5 disks
>> on each machine.
>>
>
> You could also try booting off a CD. I find it's quicker than booting
> from the floppy (due to the increased read speed), and it might even be
> cheaper.
>
> http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=80408&package_id=97496&release_id=190646
>
> -Rob
>
>
>
Actually, booting off the CD isn't going to affect speed very much at
all. The reason is that the EtherBoot file is so small--32KB to
36KB--that it'll take as much time for the CD to spin up as it would to
read that little file from a floppy. Now, hard disk, that's a different
story. But even then, the file's so small that--fortunately--it doesn't
matter that much.
Also remember, once the EtherBoot image is loaded, you're then
TFTP-booting across the network. The floppy's out of the picture at
that point.
--TP
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