[debian-knoppix] Clients able to boot per etherboot from Knoppix-Terminalserver
Hi,
it is possible to use etherboot...
I just made a disk for my compexrl2000-network-card (www.rom-o-matic.net,
5.0.7)
I let everything on default ...
I wrote this to floppy-disk with dd ...
I started knoppix-terminalserver ...
I changed to /tftpboot and executed mknbi vmlinuz miniroot.gz > vmlinuz_tagged
(note: mknbi was not available in knoppix version I used (04/09/2002))
I changed in dhcpd.conf pxeboot.0 to vmlinuz_tagged and restarted dhcpd ...
I booted the other client per floppy, it found the tagged image, found the
network drivers (0_8390.o and ne2k-pci.o) and all I had to do was to specify
the nfs-root (because there are no boot-params given with etherboot, but
there was somewhere an option I think ...)
And then it booted over nfs ...
So, perhaps on some machines it works on other not ... ?!
So please, Klaus include mknbi-package (67.6 Kb) in the next Knoppix-Version
and let knoppix-terminal-server create a tagged image, there is also an
option in dhcpd.conf, which can diff between etherboot and pxe-clients ...
two additional lines can't hurt ...
With the commandlines, I'll think about it ...
cu
Fabian
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