[RHCE] Network Driver

[Jeremy Portzer]

Hey Jon,
We've got the server-side setup covered; that comes with LTSP.

The problem is getting the Ethernet card to boot off the network.  Ten
years ago you probably had cards with Boot ROMs that were able to do a
BOOTP and TFTP download.  Current Ethernet cards do not have this
capability, and physical boot ROMs are expensive.  So that's why you
have to use these special "etherboot" floppies that simulate the boot
ROMs.

--Jeremy

On Fri, 2003-02-07 at 03:24, Jon Carnes wrote:
> Hmm, I used to make etherboot images.  It was years ago but as I recall the
> process was very generic and easy (once you had done about 20 of them)...  I
> put a disk in one of the workstations, installed everything I needed to
> boot, find the network, and mount network drives.  Then I simply copied the
> existing files and directories up to a server and ran a few programs that
> converted the files/directories into a bootp image.  After that I logged
> into the bootp server and told it to load this image for these MAC
> addresses.  Bing - Bam - Boom.  Easy as pie.
> 
> Since this was well over 10 years ago, I can't image that the process has
> gotten any more complex.
> 
> Jon
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jason Tower" <jason@cerient.net>
> To: <rhce@trilug.org>
> Sent: Thursday, February 06, 2003 3:04 PM
> Subject: Re: [RHCE] Network Driver
> 
> 
> this driver would work for getting a stand-alone installation to work, but
> it
> doesn't help with etherboot (and therefore LTSP).  as jeremy suggested, it
> is
> probably possible to make a special boot disk that would provide the kernel
> and other necessary modules for LTSP, that's not a road i really feel like
> travelling down right now.  but if anyone else wants to give it a go, more
> power to them.
> 
> jason
> 
> On Thursday 06 February 2003 15:45, Rock Roskam wrote:
> > I found a linux driver for for the Broadcom cards.  Attached is the
> > readme file.  If there is a driver can we make ltsp work? Or do we have
> > to set up by etherboot.
> >
> > Rock Roskam
> > Manager
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> > rock@eclecticlan.com
> > www.eclecticlan.com
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