[K12OSN] using really old PCs as clients

raju VK vkr2007 at gmail.com
Wed Oct 14 05:59:58 UTC 2009


Thanks for the clarification.  Hardware vendors and other people were not
sure of this. That is why I posted it. This assumes significance as the
floppy drives on al these machines  are not working. Therefore I  have
decided to give a try even if  the query is not answered.



with many thanks,
Raju

On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 8:54 AM, "Terrell Prudé Jr." <
microman at cmosnetworks.com> wrote:

>  Actually, it was answered, but perhaps you're not understanding just what
> it is we're saying here.  Any card that supports PXE-booting is just such a
> card as you describe, with its own boot ROM on it.
>
> Here's some additional information as well.  If you have any 3Com 3C905
> cards handy (either the original or the "B" variant), you'll notice a socket
> for a chip.  That socket is where you'd put the boot ROM for that card.  If
> you do put that in, then your PC will happily boot from the network.  Jim
> McQuillan sells these chips for several types of network card, not just
> 3C905's.  But what if you don't happen to have that chip, and your employer
> will not pop for these chips?  That's when you "substitute" the boot ROM
> chip for a floppy disk, hard disk, or CD-ROM with that same boot ROM image
> on it.  It accomplishes exactly the same thing.
>
> Hopefully this helps to clear some things up.
>
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> raju VK wrote:
>
> Thanks for all the replies. But even now my question is not properly
> answered. It is simply,  if I use a new network card with boot ROM,
> whether I can boot in to a network even if the boot options does not have
> an entry for network card as boot device.
>
>  From the replies I assume the answer is negative and the only option is
> to use a boot floppy.
>
>  regards,
> Raju
>
>
>  On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 9:48 PM, Klaus Ade Johnstad <klaus at skolelinux.no>wrote:
>
>>  Søndag 11. oktober 2009 17.44.09 skrev raju VK :
>>  > I have successfully installed the terminal server on my fc10
>> >  desktop.. Now my question is now I can use some vintage (1998/99)
>> >  PCs as clients. The PCs has no option to boot from network. Other
>> >  wise they are still functional. If I use a network card with boot
>> >  ROM can I connect these PCs to the terminal server ?. I googling the
>> >  net last two days does not yield any result.
>> >
>> >
>> > with thanks in advance,
>> > Raju
>> >
>>
>>  One person that is using realy old PC as clients (like i486 w/4MB ram)
>> is Alberto Castillo from Argentina. Search the listarchives for mail
>> from him,  Alberto Castillo <proyecto.edulin at gmail.com>
>>
>> That would be a good startin point.
>>
>> --
>> Klaus Ade
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