Re: [Etherboot-users] pxe boot ?

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

hi!

i am going to explain how to boot an image of a DOS floppy disk or the 
debian installer via the network

extract http://perso.wanadoo.fr/philippe.jounin/download/tftpd32.280.zip
extract 
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/boot/syslinux/syslinux-3.11.zip

create a directory (e.g. c:\tftproot)

start tftpd32.exe

modify the tftpd32 settings:
- make c:\tftproot the base directory
- make sure "PXE Compatibility" is selected

create a valid DHCP server configuration (use pxelinux.0 as boot file) 
and save it.

a sample DHCP configuration:
IP pool starting address: 192.168.6.100
size of pool: 10
boot file: pxelinux.0
wins/dns server: 192.168.6.1
default router: 192.168.6.254
mask: 255.255.255.0
domain name: domain.invalid

create an image of bootable DOS floppy disk (e.g. using winimage) and 
copy it to c:\tftproot\dos.ima

copy these files from the syslinux package to c:\tftproot\:

pxelinux.0
memdisk/memdisk
com32/modules/chain.c32
com32/modules/menu.c32

create the sub-directory c:\tftproot\sarge\

copy 
http://ftp.egr.msu.edu/debian/dists/sarge/main/installer-i386/current/images/netboot/debian-installer/i386/linux 
to c:\tftproot\sarge\

copy 
http://ftp.egr.msu.edu/debian/dists/sarge/main/installer-i386/current/images/netboot/debian-installer/i386/initrd.gz 
to c:\tftproot\sarge\

create the sub-directory c:\tftproot\pxelinux.cfg\  (although there is 
an extension, it has to be a directory and not a file!)

create a file called default ( c:\tftproot\pxelinux.cfg\default )

# start of the file default
DEFAULT menu
PROMPT 0
TIMEOUT 100
MENU TITLE a simple boot menu
LABEL nextdev
     MENU LABEL next device (depends on BIOS settings)
     localboot 0
LABEL fd
     MENU LABEL floppy A:
     KERNEL chain.c32
     append fd0
LABEL hda
     MENU LABEL Master Boot Record (MBR) of the 1st hard disk
     KERNEL chain.c32
     append hd0
LABEL dos
     MENU LABEL Image of a DOS floppy disk
     KERNEL memdisk
     append initrd=dos.ima
label debian
     MENU LABEL Debian Sarge Installer (Kernel 2.4)
     kernel sarge/linux
     append vga=normal initrd=sarge/initrd.gz ramdisk_size=9424 
root=/dev/rd/0 devfs=mount,dall rw  --
LABEL menu
     MENU HIDE
     KERNEL menu.c32
# end of the file default

Cheers
Alex