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@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@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@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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