Jim Hall schreef: > A user emailed me to ask (in short) how to boot FreeDOS using PXE? The > target PC only has a network card and memory ... no hard drive, no > floppy, no USB, no CD-ROM. > What does he want out of his machine? You'll need some kind of server, running TFTP software. For Windows I use http://tftpd32.jounin.net/ Furthermore you need a boot image placed on the TFTP server. Client needs to be able to boot from network (network interface card with bootrom on it or in BIOS).
http://syslinux.zytor.com/pxe.php is what I follow usually. Server --> TFTP program --> pxelinux --> memdisk --> bootdisk image --> Client's networkcard and machine. > Has anyone here successfully PXE-booted FreeDOS? > Done so before, in VMware. Planning to do the same again sometime soon, when new hardware arrives. http://www.veder.com/nwdsk/index.html is a nice bootdisk image, and testing PXE functionality is easiest with Memtest as payload (rather than memdisk + dos bootdisk image). btw don't take WinME (winXP's bootdisk) on your bootdisk image, its kernel doesn't like non-local boots. Extending functionality of the network booted image can be done using packet drivers, ndis drivers, ramdisk drivers, etc. Even Win9x can be booted over the network (but can't find the link anymore, an old C'T computermagazine article) > It's been over 10 years since I had to set up tftp and network-booting > on a server, so I don't know that I can help this guy. I was hoping to > get some advice from the group that I could send to him. > Bernd ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
