Re: [Etherboot-users] pxe boot ?

[Alexander H. <mai...@gm...>]

> 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
> ...

Use PXELinux and memdisk from the syslinux package (read its 
documentation for details!).

http://syslinux.zytor.com/pxe.php

Alex