[Etherboot-users] pxe boot ?

[Roy W. <roy...@ya...>]

Hi, i'm new to this list after hunting the internet
for months and trying to get something working with
BootP / PXE that is very frustrating. I'm hoping
someone can help me here ?

I have a Fujitsu Stylistic LT tablet PC. these are old
tablet's, not new WinXP tablet edition stuff, just a
Pentium 233, with 64 MB of RAM and a 4 GB drive, but
they are great little units. I have no operating
system on one, and no floppy drive (none built in),
and cannot buy a floppy disc as these are unsupported,
but they *DO* have PXE boot as an option in the BIOS.

So, I have turned on PXE boot, and a DHCP TFTP server
on my main system using tftpd32 which works perfectly.
My Fujitsu is correctly picking up an IP address which
is great. However, on trying to send a package over, I
got constant errors saying "to many packages", with an
error code that I looked up on google that indicated
that PXE will not accept boot images larger than 512KB
! this is an old machine with no possibility of
getting the PXE upgraded to allow larger images. So i
took a 500KB file and pointed that at the machine, and
indeed the error was no longer there. So, now it seems
that I need either a DOS or Linux boot disc that can
boot the system over PXE, but it must be less than
512KB in size ! this is the really tough bit, as I
cannot make a DOS boot disk image smaller than ~650KB
and I'm a bit clueless about making Linux boot discs
...

Please help, as this would help in so many ways,
having a simple system to boot any system on my
network to a command prompt without a floppy or cd
boot can be used for so many useful tasks. I've
actually been trying to get this stuff working on and
off for about 2 years now, and I've never got anywhere
with it. PXE seems to be a real "black art" and useful
information on the internet on this has been very
difficult to find ... so I'm very much hoping that
someone on this list can help me with this.

Thanks / Best Regards,

Roy.


		
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