RE: What is the latest "known-good" PXE build ?

2001-02-06 Thread Kenneth P. Stox
On 06-Feb-01 Matt Simerson wrote: > Anyway, that should help you out considerably. If I could legally give away > a floppy with WIN-98 MSDOS installed and the fboot.exe program I would but I > think doing so violates a software license or two. > Have you looked at Free-DOS ?

RE: What is the latest "known-good" PXE build ?

2001-02-06 Thread Mike Silbersack
On Tue, 6 Feb 2001, Matt Simerson wrote: > Anyway, that should help you out considerably. If I could legally give away > a floppy with WIN-98 MSDOS installed and the fboot.exe program I would but I > think doing so violates a software license or two. > > Matt How about using caldera dr-dos (or

RE: What is the latest "known-good" PXE build ?

2001-02-06 Thread Matt Simerson
h > Cc: Luigi Rizzo; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: What is the latest "known-good" PXE build ? > > > Mike Smith ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > > The BIOS trace says the PXE is revision 2.0, build 68 > : is there some other, > &

Re: What is the latest "known-good" PXE build ?

2001-02-06 Thread Paul Saab
Mike Smith ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > The BIOS trace says the PXE is revision 2.0, build 68 : is there some other, > > > > perhaps better version of it ? (the on-board NIC on the machine is an fxp) > > > > > > Build 068 is a disaster; you ideally want 082 or later. > > > > is there some

Re: What is the latest "known-good" PXE build ?

2001-02-06 Thread Mike Smith
> > > The BIOS trace says the PXE is revision 2.0, build 68 : is there some other, > > > perhaps better version of it ? (the on-board NIC on the machine is an fxp) > > > > Build 068 is a disaster; you ideally want 082 or later. > > is there some standard way to upgrade the pxe code on the cards

Re: What is the latest "known-good" PXE build ?

2001-02-06 Thread Luigi Rizzo
> > The BIOS trace says the PXE is revision 2.0, build 68 : is there some other, > > perhaps better version of it ? (the on-board NIC on the machine is an fxp) > > Build 068 is a disaster; you ideally want 082 or later. is there some standard way to upgrade the pxe code on the cards ? in case, w

Re: What is the latest "known-good" PXE build ?

2001-02-06 Thread Luigi Rizzo
> I haven't tracked these changes, and am still using some slightly older > rc files. I've updated my rc.diskless stuff to use mdconfig now though; > if there's interest I'll put it up for review. yes please... i'd like to fix things as needed so that diskless scripts work correctly in our ne

Re: What is the latest "known-good" PXE build ?

2001-02-06 Thread Mike Smith
> > The BIOS trace says the PXE is revision 2.0, build 68 : is there some other, > perhaps better version of it ? (the on-board NIC on the machine is an fxp) Build 068 is a disaster; you ideally want 082 or later. > PS : As I've seen, rc has been modified to get rid of > "early_nfs_mounts". Aft

What is the latest "known-good" PXE build ?

2001-02-06 Thread Thierry . Herbelot
Hello, I'm trying to use the pxeboot loader from 4.2-RELEASE, to diskless boot some rack-mount PCs. Using documentation from Alfred Perlstein and Mike Smith, I've configured a DHCP server and a tftp server, and I'm still having problems with at least one machine not being able to start each ti