On 4/20/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This question isn't specifically about unattended, but I figure the people > on this list have similar knowledge, so I'll ask:
There is a pxe/syslinux mailing list: http://www.zytor.com/mailman/listinfo/syslinux I know that they are more suitable for answering your question. > > I am happily using unattended 4.3 with the linux boot via PXE. My DHCP > server is Windows. My TFTP server is Windows. My File server (where > unattended is located) is Windows. As you can tell, I'm fluent with windows, > but not so much with linux. > > I'm using PXELinux as the bootloader, because it supports a nice menu system > for choosing to boot other utilities or disk images via memdisk. > > Symantec GHOST has some sort of Boot Image creator. When I run it, and > choose all my options, it creates a boot image for me, but it creates it > with a .SYS extension. > > Does anyone know what the heck I'm supposed to do with this file? GHOST is > remarkably unclear, because it expects me to know about my PXE > configuration. > > Am I supposed to put it in my default configuration file? When I try, it > doesn't boot. It just locks up. > > LABEL ghost > MENU LABEL ^GHOST > KERNEL unattended/memdisk > APPEND initrd=tools/ghost.sys keeppxe > > It doesn't really look like a disk image, because it's over 2MB in size. Can > anyone tell me if I'm on the right track? Did you try using ghost.sys as the kernel? Like this: LABEL ghost MENU LABEL ^GHOST KERNEL tools/ghost.sys APPEND initrd=unattended/memdisk keeppxe This would make sense since an initrd _is_ a memdisk If that doesn't work, try googling for whatever the full name of that .sys file is plus "pxe". -- Libre Software: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ unattended-info mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info
