Sometimes you need to look under legacy devices. The NIC is probably not defaulted to PXE boot and you will have find that setting in the bios.
Chris Franzen Technology Coordinator Nokomis School District 511 Oberle St. Nokomis, IL 62075 On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 10:21 AM, Scott Siri <[email protected]> wrote: > one is windows 2000 of which there are 15-20 in the building still. > > The other is a dell dimension 4600 looks to be about 6 years old by the > service tag. We have a lot that are this vintage in our building....are we > out of luck? I saw a PIX BIS setting in the BIOS of the 4600, but that was > it. I don't know what BIS is, but I set it to accept. > > Scott > > On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 10:01 AM, McKay, Curtis <[email protected]> wrote: > >> PXE has been standard on machines for quite a while. How old are the >> computers in question? Some machines are PXE capable but have it disabled >> in the BIOS when you buy them. You lose A LOT of the power of FOG if you >> don’t PXE boot. >> >> >> >> Curtis McKay >> >> Network Administrator >> >> Belleville Township High School District 201 >> >> [email protected] >> >> >> >> *From:* [email protected] [mailto: >> [email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Scott Siri >> *Sent:* Friday, August 06, 2010 9:21 AM >> *To:* Tech-Geeks Mailing List >> *Subject:* Re: [tech-geeks] FOG newbie question >> >> >> >> thanks for the help guys! >> >> I checked the wiki, but didn't see mention of the following....of the >> three computers I've checked in our building only one had a PXE option. I >> see that there are disk booting options for PXE out there, but do you have >> some you suggest or perhaps a different direction around old computers with >> no PXE? >> >> Also the one that did have the PXE option came back with an error when I >> went to boot and run a memory test. >> >> "PXE-E11 ARP Timeout" There was more, but it dissappeared too quick. I >> think I have the FOG network settings right, but now I wonder. ARP is a >> router protocol? I aimed FOG at the same router that is in DHCP and is >> dished out to all our clients. >> >> Thanks for all the help, >> Scott >> >> On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 8:55 AM, CHUCK SYPERSKI <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> Yes, it is by default, you could off load that service to another >> machine, but we make it a tftp server by default. >> >> >> On Fri, 2010-08-06 at 08:03 -0500, Scott Siri wrote: >> > thanks....is my fog server my tftp server? >> > >> > On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 7:52 AM, CHUCK SYPERSKI >> > <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Check this out: >> > >> > >> http://www.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php?title=Windows_DHCP_Server >> > >> > >> > On Fri, 2010-08-06 at 06:44 -0500, Scott Siri wrote: >> > > Setting up a FOG server and I wasn't able to go to feast and >> > so missed >> > > the demo on setting it up. >> > > >> > > I'm asking about what to put in Option 66 and 67 in my DHCP >> > server. >> > > >> > > For option 66 I think I need "fogserver.MHS.local" Right? >> > I don't >> > > know where to find a hostname on this ubuntu. >> > > >> > > Option 67 I'm clueless. What is the bootfile name? >> > > >> > > Thanks, >> > > Scott >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > >> > > *** This Email was sent by an educator at Mendota IL. >> > > | Subscription info at http://www.tech-geeks.org | >> > >> > >> > | Subscription info at http://www.tech-geeks.org | >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > *** This Email was sent by an educator at Mendota IL. >> > | Subscription info at http://www.tech-geeks.org | >> >> >> | Subscription info at http://www.tech-geeks.org | >> >> >> >> >> *** This Email was sent by an educator at Mendota IL. >> >> | Subscription info at http://www.tech-geeks.org | >> > > > > *** This Email was sent by an educator at Mendota IL. > > | Subscription info at http://www.tech-geeks.org | >
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