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Howto Boot LTSP clients without diskette and a 3c905b-tx (v0.2)
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Place a bootable pxe rom on the server
you have to place a rom from www.rom-o-matic.net for your 3c905b on the server.
the correct nic-rom type for the 3c905b is : 3c905b-tpo100
output format is: PXE bootstrap loader
download/save the rom image on the server under /tftpboot/lts/
for example: /tftpboot/lts/eb-5.4.0-3c90x.zpxe
Howto Boot LTSP clients without diskette and a 3c905b-tx (v0.2)Introduction
Problem: I want to boot my ltsp-clients without diskette. I use 3Com nics 3c905b that have sockets
on board where you can insert a 32 pin bootrom chip. I tried to flash some bootrom chips from
old motherboards with the mba boot manager from 3com. after that i can boot without diskette.
(alternative: buy a 3c905C-TX at ebay, this nic has an onboard bootrom)What you need to make 3c905b-TX bootable:MS-Dos Boot-Disk + utilities
Download 3Coms Utilities for 3c90x nics here: ftp://ftp.3com.com/pub/nic/3c90x/util430.exe or update.zip
Download 3Coms Driver-Disk for 3C90x here: ftp://ftp.3com.com/pub/nic/3c90x/3c90x2.exe or 3c90xcfg.zip
Create a MS-Dos Bootdisk.
Copy folder update from util430.exe to the just created diskette.
Copy 3C90XCFG.EXE to diskette.BootRom:
You need a bootrom that you can flash.
(Maybe you have some old pentium1 mainboards where you can find the following bootroms.)