<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2 Final//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="SGML-Tools 1.0.9"> <TITLE>Thin Client: New User Guide: Client setup</TITLE> <LINK HREF="Thinclient-HOWTO-5.html" REL=next> <LINK HREF="Thinclient-HOWTO-3.html" REL=previous> <LINK HREF="Thinclient-HOWTO.html#toc4" REL=contents> </HEAD> <BODY> <A HREF="Thinclient-HOWTO-5.html">Next</A> <A HREF="Thinclient-HOWTO-3.html">Previous</A> <A HREF="Thinclient-HOWTO.html#toc4">Contents</A> <HR> <H2><A NAME="client"></A> <A NAME="s4">4. Client setup</A></H2> <P><EM>Network loader</EM> <P>A small program that runs as a BIOS extension, can be loaded from a floppy, or you can burn an eprom chip and insert it on your network card for a totally diskless client. It handles the DHCPD query and TFTP loading and then transfers control to the loaded image. It uses TCP/IP protocols. <P> <P>There are two free implementations of TCP/IP net loaders: <A HREF="http://www.slug.org.au/etherboot/">Etherboot</A> and <A HREF="http://www.han.de/~gero/netboot.html">Netboot</A>: Etherboot uses built-in drivers while Netboot uses Packet drivers. <P> <UL> <LI>see etherboot-4.2/doc/html/README-2.html,</LI> <LI>I compiled the option to ask local or Network and default to local after 5 seconds</LI> <LI>making a boot rom floppy, floppyload.bin was tricky to find, I copied it into the directory of compiled rom images <HR> <PRE> cat floppyload.bin ne2000.lzrom > /dev/fd0 </PRE> <HR> </LI> </UL> <HR> <A HREF="Thinclient-HOWTO-5.html">Next</A> <A HREF="Thinclient-HOWTO-3.html">Previous</A> <A HREF="Thinclient-HOWTO.html#toc4">Contents</A> </BODY> </HTML>