[K12OSN] Help!!!

[Robert Harrelson]

Hello,

I'm sure you'll get a response from someone more expert than I, but for 
what it's worth . . .

The mtools component allows the clients to access their a: drives and 
move files to and from a floppy. It is unrelated to the boot process. If 
the clients' NICs don't have an appropriate bootrom then the clients 
have to boot from a floppy. But the bootdisk cannot be read by mtools, 
you need a windows/ms-dos formatted floppy to use mtools.

That is, you boot the client from a floppy with the appropriate 
etherboot stuff on it.

Then, once the client is running you can insert a pc-formatted floppy 
into drive a: and use mtools to access it.

Hope this helps.

Robert

Jeff Braumberger wrote:

> Ok I have the server up and running almost.  Can’t get the Mtools fm to 
> work.  I keep getting “Can’t connect to floppyd server on local host 
> port 5703 – can’t initialize A.
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> I have mount the A drive and am able to copy the Ethernet bootrom I need 
> to my floppy.  Let me see if I’m thinking right. 
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> I need the bootrom for the clients Ethernet card?  -Intel EtherExpress 
> Pro/100 –bootrom 82559?
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> Will the client boot automatically from the floppy?  I have the boot 
> sequence correct although since it’s diskless do I need to do this?
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> What use is the floppyd server?
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> Thanks
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