PXE booting

[Dazed_75]

Also known as gpxe it seems.  I built it which now builds the files for
floppy, usb stick, and CD.iso's (and maybe others) in one pass.  The floppy
one would not make a usable floppy, but the .iso made a working CD.  I've
only tried it in one machine but it worked nicely.  Due to another issue
with the PXE server itself, I won't pursue ths further at this time.  I will
start another thread on that issue.

Thanks for your help.  I will be using this in the future.

Larry

On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 3:29 PM, Paul Mooring <drpppr242 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I've used this: http://etherboot.org/wiki/index.php as a work around
> in the past to use a bootable CD or usb drive, to integrate with my
> pxe boot environments, it doesn't really add pxe boot because the
> system boots off of some other type of media, but it at least lets you
> use the hardware you have.
>
> On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 3:13 PM, Stephen <cryptworks at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I think there are some other protocols, but im hazy on it.
> >
> > as for adding it find a nic that supports pxe boot. (i think)
> >
> > On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 3:11 PM, Dazed_75 <lthielster at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> I've built my second PXE boot server and wanted to test the various
> boots.
> >> So far I have found only two of my machines that support PXE booting and
> I
> >> do not wish to disturb them.  I've tested 7 other machines that seem to
> have
> >> no such ability.  One of them shows in BIOS that you can include the LAN
> as
> >> a boot device but it does not seem to use the PXE boot of the PXE server
> >> that is giving it its IP address with DHCP.  Since that works for
> another
> >> machine plugged into the same switch, I conclude that it expects some
> other
> >> protocol for booting from the net.
> >>
> >> 1) Does anyone know a way to ADD the ability to a machine to PXE boot
> from
> >> the LAN (e.g. adding some ethernet card)?
> >> 2) Are there network boot protocols other than PXE?
> >>
> >> --
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Dazed_75 a.k.a. Larry

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions,
that I wish it always to be kept alive.
 - Thomas Jefferson
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