Re: [Unattended] Problems with PXE and unattended-4.8

[Radu - Eosif Mihailescu]

Well, the only situation I came across that forced me to use the DOS boot disk instead of the Linux one was a couple of laptops with very new (read: weird) Marvel Yukon NICs that the kernel on the Linux bootdisk did not have support compiled in for (or available as a module).

@Dexter

On 08/02/2009 11:12 PM, Patrick Benton wrote:

Of course, I could have rebuilt the Linux boot disk, but time was a scarce commodity in both cases and restarting the procedure with the DOS image (which got the job done just as well) seemed the natural choice.

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*From:* Radu - Eosif Mihailescu [mailto:radu.mihaile...@linux360.ro]
*Sent:* Sunday, August 02, 2009 2:03 PM
*To:* unattended-info@lists.sourceforge.net
*Subject:* Re: [Unattended] Problems with PXE and unattended-4.8

Patrick,







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oh. Didn't catch that. Guess I could have looked at the .imz file more closely. I guess the real question is -- why is he using a dos boot disk and not the linux boot? I'm just curious. Maybe he has some good reason to go the dos boot rout? He's using memdisk because he's using the DOS boot disk to start the installation. "undis3c.imz" is a 1.44MB floppy (80 cylinders x 2 heads x 18 sectors x 512 bytes each) image that is perfectly bootable with memdisk (albeit using 'keeppxe' on the command line to actually have it work once booted :-) ) The solution you are suggesting below pertains to the Linux boot disk (also the recommended method by Unattended's authors), not the DOS one. So, r...@krautmann.net <mailto:r...@krautmann.net>, please try to switch to the Linux boot disk and see if it solves your problem.

Have a nice evening everyone,
@Dexter

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