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From: Michael S. <sch...@gm...> - 2006-01-25 16:09:42
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Berend De Schouwer schrieb: > On Wednesday 25 January 2006 15:03, Michael Schierl wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> On this floppy there are still about 600KB free, so I thought to put >> a few etherboot .zlilos onto it as well. They are intended for >> booting knoppix-terminalserver (or grml-terminalserver) when the used >> BIOS is too old for netboot support. > > I've used Netboot on a 386SX, with 2MB RAM, to boot Linux 1.2.13. It's > unlikely that hardware too old for Netboot will boot Knoppix of any > sort. Are we talking about the same Netboot? I guess not. For me, netboot is the feature included in most modern mainboard BIOSes to boot via network without any other hardware/software, just enable it in BIOS and boot. Works like a charm if the BIOS support it. Just like boot from CDROM or boot from USB. And I know of Pentium PCs that have a BIOS that does not support that (some even lack support booting from CDROM). And if you think Knoppix is too slow on these machines (even for recovery when someone misconfigured his system), replace Knoppix by UDPcast (for taking an image of a broken filesystem before trying to repair it). Michael |
