Avoiding ejecting the diskette...

[Kjetil Torgrim Homme]

Ronan KERYELL <Ronan.Keryell at enst-bretagne.fr> writes:

> In fact, having access to the eeprom on a Sun is very useful to do all
> these kind of dirty tricks and it is a pity not having a equivalent
> standard on the PCs... :-(

You can sort of do this with a Weasel card.  (Enter BIOS, change boot
order to floppy to do a FAI reinstall.  When done, change back to
booting from harddisk.)  Dell and Compaq (and probably others) have
similar solutions for their own servers.

http://www.realweasel.com


Kjetil T.