Re: [K12OSN] Bootable client CDs? was:Floppy support on old desktop machines
Todd O'Bryan (toddobryan@mac.com)
Thu, 12 Sep 2002 20:40:07 -0400
That would be cool!
(Except that my machines are so old that they don't even have CD
drives. But, still, I could find a CD drive, stick it in one machine,
and use that
to make a boot disk for all of them, since, in my case at least, all of
the machines are the same model.)
Todd
On Thursday, September 12, 2002, at 10:32 AM, Jim Thomas wrote:
> Todd O'Bryan wrote:
>>
>> No, I don't, unfortunately. I suppose I could try booting up my
>> desktop
>> machine, which is an IBM of more recent vintage, but that means
>> figuring out what's in its innards and making a boot floppy. (Why
>> can't
>> anything just be simple?)
>
> Your comment gave me an idea I'd like to share with the list. As you
> say, why can't it just be simple? How hard would it be to create a
> bootable CD for the client machines? Since there's so much space on
> the
> CD, it could have every ethernet driver known to mankind and autodetect
> the ethernet hardware.
>
> Once booted, the sysadmin could log into the client and run an
> autconfig
> app on the CD which would create a custom boot floppy (or ROM image)
> for
> that particular machine - similar to rom-o-matic.net, but it would
> already know what kind of ethernet card you've got.
>
> It could also report the MAC, sound, and video hardware and add
> appropriate entries to the lts.conf file (with confirmation).
>
> --
> Jim Thomas Principal Applications Engineer Bittware, Inc
> jthomas@bittware.com http://www.bittware.com (703) 779-7770
> In theory, theory and practice are the same, but in practice, they're
> not
>
>
>
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