Hello If you have ever used the FreeDOS version, probably the only thing you've seen that is missing, would be that it can't auto-detect which network card driver to use.
Here is a quote from ftp://ftp.scyld.com/private/jlehan/pxe-on-a-disk.html; ### support for all of Etherboot's modules that support real PCI cards: as of now, 26 drivers and 254 cards. I've built Etherboot ZLILO images, one for each driver, set up to boot as a PXE stack. I've used "ethersel.c32" to choose the correct image for each detected PCI card, and it seems to work. I made a fairly straightforward Perl script to take Etherboot's internal PCI device table and munge that into a fairly large SYSLINUX config file that is scanned by ethersel. I've tested it on a fair variety of different hardware and it works! It auto-detects the correct driver to load, without user interaction, and behaves just as a PXE BIOS would. ### As far as I can see, everything used was Open-Source. So perhaps, (you may need to ask author's permission to use his Perl scripts, or write them yourself), the FreeDOS portion of the Unattended Project can be upgraded to allow for auto-detection of network cards. Also including the few extra drivers that Josh included in his BootCD could also be of benefit. Please consider implementing this feature into the Unattended project. Thanks in advance, Chip D. Panarchy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H _______________________________________________ unattended-info mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info
