[ale] SCO boot.

[Jeff Lightner]

But it seems the http boot requires me booting the system from a floppy
or CD in the first place.   If I could get that far then I don't really
need an http boot option.

As to the idea about booting a floppy and mounting the drives if you'd
read the rest of the thread you'd understand that's what I'm trying to
do but I'm looking for specifics for SCO not "booting from Linux 'might'
work".  If you know of a Linux distro that includes the DPT SCSI driver
AND will recognize SCO filesystems then I'd be interested in hearing
about it.   

-----Original Message-----
From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of
Michael B. Trausch
Sent: Monday, September 28, 2009 1:31 PM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts - Yes! We run Linux!
Subject: Re: [ale] SCO boot.

On Mon, 2009-09-28 at 10:15 -0700, Boris Borisov wrote:
> http://boot.kernel.org
> 
> I have read for this yesterday ! Don't know how much hardware needs.
> Good luck.  
> 
> 

If there is a driver for the network card that is in the system, it'd
work.  It's not a bad idea.

I do know of at least one machine that gPXE (the network boot loader
that is used for boot.kernel.org) does not work on (that would be mine).
I'm working on that at the moment, actually.  First time I've attempted
to do anything with x86 assembly in 10 years.  *shudder*

Probably not a bad idea, if there is a distribution there that will boot
into a simple VT-based setup without a desktop environment and not try
to automatically mount everything in the system and it will work on the
OP's target system.

	--- Mike

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