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j.w. thomas wrote:
Terrell Prudé Jr. wrote:
Also remember that even though the floppy drives aren't working, you
can accomplish the same thing with the hard disk instead. What I do
in this case is pull the old box's hard disk out of it, install it in
another GNU/Linux or other UNIX-style box, and then "cat" the
Rom-O-Matic image to the hard disk, like so. This example is for the
3Com 3C905 series, and it assumes the old box's hard disk shows up as
/dev/hdb.
terrell@thinclientmaker$ su - root
Password: (enter root's password here)
root@thinclientmaker# cat eb-5.4.4-3c90x.zdsk > /dev/hdb
root@thinclientmaker# halt
Then, just pop this new "EtherBoot hard disk" back into the old box
and boot from it. If you set up one box to do all your old hard
disks this way, it goes pretty quickly. I did something similar with
some EIDE Sun Ultra 5 hard disks a few years back (I used an x86
machine for the cat'ing), and I had ten hard disks all config'd in
about 20 minutes.
It would be really sweet to have a LiveCD that did this for you. With
appropriate warnings!
It exists. It's called Damn Small Linux. :-)
--TP
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