Re: Win 95 remote boot off Linux server

[Marty Connor <mdc@entity.com>]

On 11/24/1999 11:22 AM skrishnan@vsnl.com S. Krishnan wrote:
>I checked the archives and found some old traffic on remote booting of a
>diskless Win 95 machine off a Linux server , but nothing conclusive.  I
>would like to know if anyone has achieved this.  Any pointers to other
>sites or information too will be gratefully accepted ... 
>TIA and regards, S. Krishnan

Here is a URL for an open source project that may help you do what you 
want:

   http://www.bs.ni.schule.de/support/rboot/index.html

Apparently they are using FreeBSD, but it doesn't look like they are 
doing anything that would prevent one from using Linux.  Their latest 
release is under a BSD style license; They also have an old GPL'd version 
available.
They seem to only support a couple kinds of ethernet cards right now, for 
which they give ROM images.  They also seem to require the cards to be 
set to specific IRQs and addresses, which suggests they are using 
netboot. I must play with this sometime and take a look.

Please let us (the list) know if this works for you, and what changes you 
might need to make in order to use Linux. 

Danke,

-- Marty --


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