Re: Booting with existing BIOS extensions

[Christoph Plattner <christoph.plattner@alcatel.at>]

If you like to hack around a little bit, have a look at ELKS, a 16bit
kind of mini/mini/extrlemly mini linux !!
	elks.sourceforge.net 
running on 16bit (8086/88, 286)

With friendly regards

	Christoph P.


Tom Watson wrote:
> 
> I'm a bit new to this list, please bear with me.  I have a 3COM
> "3Station" unit.  This is a box that has serial, parallel, and
> network ports, along with a video/keyboard interface.  As best as
> I can tell it is a (bear with me again) 286 class PC with no disk.
> 
> What I want to do is use a Linux server to boot from and use the
> box as a simple "terminal" (telnet), possibly with some printer
> I/O.  I thought that I could use a DOS based OS on the box, and
> run some programs there.
> 
> The problem is that it has some method of booting that I'm not
> very familiar with, and I am inquiring to find out if anyone has
> worked with this unit and had it boot.  I suspect that once it
> DOES boot, the tasks ought to be quite simple (SMB server for files
> and a Telnet program (NCSA??).  The problem is how do I get the
> process started.
> 
> I've looked at the packets it sends out at boot time, but I didn't
> recognize EXACTLY what I saw.
> 
> Any clues??
> 
> Thanks.
> --
> Tom Watson         Generic short signature
> tsw@johana.com     (I'm at home now)
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