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| DOS启动盘 & LOGO技术 (启动盘室) » Cloning hard disks over the network, diskless boot, experts please come in!!!!! |
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| Floor1 chinados | Posted 2003-08-05 00:00 |
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I saw articles online introducing the use of Ghost as a multicast server to clone network hard disks over a LAN, but the workstations have to have a floppy drive attached first. Generally, Internet cafés and machine rooms do not allow the use of private floppy disks, so I was thinking of using awflash to write the NIC boot program into the motherboard BIOS, then have the workstation boot diskless (which would require setting up a diskless DOS boot server), and then do the cloning from Ghost's multicast server. I don't know whether this will work. I hope some expert can give me some pointers!!!
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| Floor2 MYS | Posted 2003-08-05 00:00 |
| 元老会员 Posts 1,637 Credits 5,170 From 广东佛山 | |
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From the storage side, the problem should not be too big. Some motherboards have BIOS chips as large as 4M, and generally 2M is also common.
But these problems have to be solved one by one: 1. Also write DOS, all the files, and the NIC driver into the BIOS 2. Be able to boot the DOS and NIC driver in the BIOS normally. This is not something the China DOS Union can solve. It would require support from motherboard, BIOS, and other manufacturers. |
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| Floor3 chinados | Posted 2003-08-05 00:00 |
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That way, even the diskless DOS server would no longer be needed,
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| Floor4 yu-lee | Posted 2003-08-20 00:00 |
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No need to write to the motherboard BIOS. As long as the NIC supports PXE boot, you can keep going...
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| Floor5 playboy2925 | Posted 2003-09-06 00:00 |
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Writing the NIC driver into the motherboard is still a pretty good method.
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| Floor6 iceboy | Posted 2003-09-06 00:00 |
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Too bad it's very hard to do... just buy a PXE boot chip
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| Floor7 cn_archer | Posted 2003-09-06 00:00 |
| 元老会员 Posts 991 Credits 2,903 From 福建省 | |
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Even if you buy a PXE boot chip, it still needs the corresponding contents, right? Some things seem like you'd have to modify yourself...
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