Re: [Etherboot-users] pxe boot ?

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

Hi Alex,

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

Are you like psychic or something !? ;o)
Reason I ask is that as well as the DOS boot, the next
thing I wanted from this after DOS booting was a way
to be able to start a Debian installation, so you've
solved all my questions in this posting !!! :o) Thanks
for everyone that answered my questions, all of it has
been very helpful, and I'm very much looking forward
to trying this tonight Alex, this looks like The Way.

Now, I wonder if the PXELINUX guys can put your
information below near the start of their document (at
the moment their document says "please read 40 pages
of unintelligable syslinux documentation before
attempting to start pxelinux" which is guarenteed to
put off 80-90% of people who want to do this. uh, call
me weird, but ... I prefer Alex's description !!! ;o)
).

Cheers,

Roy.


--- Alexander Heinz <mai...@gm...> wrote:

> 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
> 



		
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