I agree that we need a new working CVS that compile without problems. But are we the only ones out there using the dosboot as a complement to the Linuxboot? When problems started to appear with SATA machines we gave the dosboot images a try.
As far as I can recall we are yet to find a machine (including laptops) that do not install WinXP using unattended PXE boot. We use a combination of an older Linuxboot kernel and a handfull of dosboot images. This enables us to work with a broad range of machines from old PII machines without PXE-bios to modern SATA machines like HP DC7700. Other machines worth mentioning are numerous laptop models including newer SATA HP's like NW8440, NX7400, NC2400 and 3 Sony VAIO models. For our situation there is really only one downside with the dosboot, it requires an extra reboot due to some MBR stuff. (fixable?) The only thing I had to do was to update some freedos files and the driver files inside the old 4.6 dos images. Freedos files choice.exe, emm386.exe, himem.exe, command.com & kernel.sys. Drivers b44.dos, b57.dos, rtsnd.dos, e100b.dos & e1000.dos. I hope this can help some of you that have machines that you are unable to install with the currently available Linuxboot. Daniel Hammaro kommun / Sweden ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
