Over the next three weeks Ron fixed the bugs in TN5250, wrote the Field Exit code, and tested with several users. Ron was convinced that TN5250 could be repaired and made to work in production. The 5250 emulation requirement was satisfied. The Hardware and Linux Operating System Jim was beginning to think about building PC's running Linux. From there, consideration was given to burning a CD-ROM with the entire configuration.
Many network cards have sockets for bootroms.
Having no experience in actually using a bootrom, the search continued for answers. A quick search of Deja NeWS turned up several references to two packages. One was called Netboot, the other was Etherboot. These were projects that created images that could be burned onto an eprom. All fitting on a 16k eprom.