Re: [Etherboot-users] pxe boot ?

[Per D. J. <pd...@kn...>]

Hi Roy,

If I understood you correctly, you have a harddrive on your systems.
You might want to get a ROM-O-MATIC etherboot image with harddrive 
support (loading etherboot from the harddrive).

http://rom-o-matic.net/5.4.1/

And copy the image directly on one of the primary partitions (must be 
made active of course).

~Knaldgas


Roy Wiseman wrote:
> 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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