regular ubuntu + thin client on the same PC

[ilidio]

Seg, 2007-08-13 às 09:14 +0200, Philippe Rousselot escreveu:
> Gavin McCullagh a écrit :
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Sat, 11 Aug 2007, Philippe Rousselot wrote:
> >
> >   
> >> is there a tutorial somewhere on how to set up a pc runing ubuntu able 
> >> to boot either on its local ubuntu or as a thin client from the grub 
> >> menu. the machine does not have a bootable network card from the bios.
> >>     
> >

Don't know about a tutorial, but you can just try this:

1. Identify your network card
Run:
	lspci -nn
on a console and identify the name and ID of your network card. The PCI
ID should look something like "10b7:9201"

2. Go to http://www.rom-o-matic.com/5.4.3
On field 1 choose your NIC (make sure the PCI ID code is correct)
On field 2 choose the "LILO/GRUB/SYSLINUX loadable kernel format
(.zlilo)"
You can check the "configuration" button and then just click the "Get
ROM"

3. Save the file you downloaded in /boot, with a name like
"lanboot.zlilo" or something like that.

4. Edit the /boot/grub/menu.lst file and add these lines:

title       Remote boot
kernel      /boot/lanboot.zlilo

If you are not used to edit menu.lst the safest place to put the lines
is at the very bottom.
There's a "default" option in menu.lst that let's you choose wich option
will boot by default, you can change that if you want the remote boot to
be default (mind that in grub the first option is number "0").

Good luck :)

Ilídio Vicente