[K12OSN] compaq deskpros

[Petre Scheie]

I suspect not all Dell GX1 machines are the same.  I have one that I use for some other 
things, but thought I'd try to test it as a client.  Despite upgrading the BIOS, there's 
no option in the setup for network booting (PXE or otherwise).  I'd love to be insulted 
by someone telling me there is a way to make this happen.  An etherboot floppy doesn't 
count, I'm already doing that; I want to make it boot via BIOS setting.

Petre

Terrell Prudé Jr. wrote:
> Dell OptiPlex GX1's have this same issue.  A BIOS flash fixes it.
> 
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> Krsnendu dasa wrote:
>> That is all I have (Model EN SFF) in my school they are great. The
>> sound is only 8 bit but hey... still sounds okay. Use sb module
>> (snd-sb8 for alsa). Everything onboard. Unplug the hd and they are
>> very quiet no cpu fan.
>> The trick to getting them to PXE boot is to update the bios. I had to
>> download a dos exe program called softpaq and it makes a boot disk
>> that updates the bios. Once that is done go into setup F10 enable
>> network boot and you should be away. The hard part is tracking down
>> and creating the bios update disk. Once you have done that though it's
>> good.
>>
>> On 22/01/07, cliebow at midmaine.com <cliebow at midmaine.com> wrote:
>>> depemds on bios..some work some are little pains
>>> > Huck tells me that compaq deskpros have been problems.  Has anyone 
>>> been
>>> > successful in getting these to etherboot?
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