[K12OSN] newbie trouble booting thin clients

[Will Hatch]

Thanks again all.  I think I figured it out with rawrite on a windows 98 machine.  for some reason, I have a xp machine or two that doesn't like rawrite.  I'll try tomorrow! thanks again. -will
> 
> From: Doug Simpson <simpsond at leopards.k12.ar.us>
> Date: 2004/07/13 Tue PM 04:42:17 EDT
> To: "Support list for opensource software in schools." <k12osn at redhat.com>
> Subject: Re: Re: [K12OSN] newbie trouble booting thin clients
> 
> You must be sitting in the same directory where the ennet522.dsk file is 
> before that will work, also, you must be able to read the file 
> (permissions, here) and you must have write access to the floppy.
> 
> I simply do this kind of stuff as root and then there are very few 
> permission problems.
> 
> DS
> 
> On Tue, 13 Jul 2004, Will Hatch wrote:
> 
> > Thanks for the tip on the universal boot floppy.  This is what I need, since I have an assortment of potential thin clients with different nic cards.  My problem is I can't seem to make these boot floppys.  I downloaded the file to my home, I open it up, I read the readme file... it says "under Linux: cp ebnet522.dsk /dev/fd0" 
> > 
> > so, when I type in my terminal window "cp ennet522.dsk /dev/fd0" it says "cp: cannot stat `ebnet522.dsk': No such file or directory"
> > 
> > What am I doing wrong?
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > > 
> > > From: Les Mikesell <les at futuresource.com>
> > > Date: 2004/07/13 Tue AM 10:21:38 EDT
> > > To: "Support list for opensource software in schools." <k12osn at redhat.com>
> > > Subject: Re: [K12OSN] newbie trouble booting thin clients
> > > 
> > > On Tue, 2004-07-13 at 08:08, Jim Hays wrote:
> > > > The new NIC SHOULD take care of the problem.  I would get them booting with a
> > > > boot floppy first to make sure that the computers will indeed work - they
> > > > should.  Go to www.rom-o-matic.com and make a boot floppy for the NIC that is in
> > > > the boxes.  Get them booting to the floppies and then decide if you want to buy
> > > > the new NICs.
> > > 
> > > Or follow the 'universal network boot floppy' link for the thinstation
> > > project: http://thinstation.sourceforge.net/download.html.
> > > It has 30+ drivers and should boot about anything.
> > > 
> > > ---
> > >   Les Mikesell
> > >    les at futuresource.com
> > > 
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> Doug Simpson
> Technology Specialist
> DeQueen Public Schools
> DeQueen, AR 71832
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