[Cialug] Neat Tool: ROM-o-matic.net

[Dave Crouse]

I remember setting up K12LTSP 4.0 ( Fedora based) in 2003, I posted a
how to on that, and had to use http://www.rom-o-matic.net/5.2.2/
(link is dead now) to get a 3com509tpo ethernet card to boot from
floppy as it had a bios that didn't have a PXE option.  I used LTSP
for a year or so before moving on (finally got a few more faster
computers).

Here is the link to that ancient how to I wrote years ago, in case
anyone wants to see it ;)
http://usalug.org/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=1284

But yes, the http://rom-o-matic.net/ proved to be a lifesaver for a
couple of my machines.

Dave Crouse





On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 8:25 PM, Josh More
<morej at alliancetechnologies.net> wrote:
> I've been refreshing my LTSP-based music system at home.  As part of the
> testing, I needed one more thin client than I had, and the extra box I
> had did not support PXE booting natively.
>
> After a fair amount of googling, I stumbled across
> http://rom-o-matic.net/
>
> Basically, you can follow the gPXE link, enter the information that
> matches your card, and generate an image (cd, floppy, usb, etc) that
> will boot, recognize the card and then flip you into a PXE boot session.
>  It also gives you the ability to flash ROMs as well as some pretty cool
> command line tools to use for debugging various issues.
>
> I wanted to mention it here in case anyone else might be interested.
>
> -Josh More, RHCE, CISSP, NCLP, GIAC
>  morej at alliancetechnologies.net
>  515-245-7701
>
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