[K12OSN] Fedora 9 Live LTSP Server, Beta 1

[Warren Togami]

Nadav Kavalerchik wrote:
> it is etherboot. (rtl8139 + etherboot chip i got from disklessworkstation)
> 
> what can i do to help in this ?
> 

Any idea what version of Etherboot?  What is its vendor-class-identifier?

I just committed the attached to ltsp-trunk.  This should work on 
anything reporting itself as "Etherboot-5.4" in the DHCP request.  If 
your Etherboot is older though, it becomes a bit difficult to handle 
automatically.  This is because older Etherboot reported itself as 
"Etherboot", where some versions supported only NBI while others were 
capable of ELF.

I tried mknbi-linux just now and the resulting NBI seems to just fail. 
I cannot prioritize looking further at NBI given how old it is.  If 
somebody else figures out a way to improve this situation for older 
Etherboot I'm willing to review patches.

Anyhow, give this a try.

Warren Togami
wtogami at redhat.com
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