[gPXE] Use etherboot with very old laptop

Pierre AUSSAGUEL pierre_aussaguel at yahoo.fr
Tue Mar 6 05:20:02 EST 2012


Hi all,

I am trying to setup my old laptop (DELL Inspiron 3000 M166ST : 
http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/SYSTEMS/ptwist/specs.htm ) to use 
etherboot (It will be a thin client).

The floppy drive and the CD-Rom drive are broken
The USB port does not allow to boot

I can access to the hard drive disk with a usb_to_ide adapter and mount 
it on my main computer (Gentoo linux)

I have a 3 Com PC-CARD 3CXFE574BT ethernet adapter that works well under 
Linux

I have tried to write some images generated by ROM-o-matic.net (.dsk 
.sdsk .iso .liso .usb ) using cat image > hdd but none seems to boot

How can  do ?


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