Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Burning/Flashing images to NICs

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Użytkownik Jaime Torres napisał:

>We're currently using LTSP in an educational project in Perú. The
>diskless workstations boot using a floppy disk but we need to get rid of
>them since there are no more floppy drives available.
>
>We want to buy fast ethernet cards instead but don't have a clue on how
>the images should be burned/flashed into the EPROMs of the NICs.
>
>Based on your experience:
>
>1. Please recommend us the best NIC to do this job
>2. How can we burn the etherboot image to its EPROM?
>
>Regards,
>JT
>  
>
Ad.1.
I used Realtec 8139 cards, but there was some signals on this forum that 
they can have problems with some switches.

Ad.2.
You need a Eprom programator. I used borowed one ;-)
With it you'll get some software to write Eproms.

Don't forget to check if you are using the exact image - if you'll try 
with diferent PCI addres you'll boot from floppy without any problem but 
from bootrom you'll not.

Greeting from Poland
(I'm dreaming about journey to Peru)
Marcin Lubojański
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