Re: [Etherboot-users] pxe boot ?

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On Tue, Sep 27, 2005 at 12:59:36PM +0100, Roy Wiseman wrote:
> Hi Cristian,
> 
> >  To understand more about how the etherboot/pxelinux
> > works,
> > get a look at the LTSP wiki (wiki.ltsp.org) under
> > 'Booting methods':
> >  http://wiki.ltsp.org/twiki/bin/view/Ltsp/Etherboot
> >  http://wiki.ltsp.org/twiki/bin/view/Ltsp/PXE
> 
> This is fascinating, I'll keep going with this.
> 
> > For simple DOS booting images you can try
> > http://tinyurl.com/9dxyv
> > for starters, it's a floppy image with FreeDos, you
> > can boot it with
> > memdisk.
> 
> This is great, I think I'll be able to do it simply
> with this. but, this page
> http://syslinux.zytor.com/memdisk.php
> is causing me some grief. it describes a lot about
> what memdisk is and how to use it, but it's not part
> of pxelinux. When I boot PXE linux and get to the
> command line, memdisk is not a valid command, so this
> is not too helpful ... any ideas how to *use* memdisk
> ?

memdisk is a separate program distributed with syslinux. Download the
latest syslinux sources and look there.
-- 
Didi