Re: PXE boot disks

From: David Nedrow (listbox_at_nedron.net)
Date: 06/15/05

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    As an addendum, here's a link to a PXE installHOWTO. I haven't tried
    it, so I don't know how accurate the writeup is.

    http://www.stanford.edu/~alfw/PXE-Kickstart/PXE-Kickstart.html

    -David

    On Jun 15, 2005, at 11:07 AM, David Nedrow wrote:

    > On Jun 15, 2005, at 10:42 AM, MW Mike Weiner (5028) wrote:
    >
    >
    >
    >> A somewhat silly question, but how does one go about creating a
    >> PXE boot
    >> disk from the /images/pxeboot files since there is no .img to DD
    >> to the
    >> floppy? Can anyone give me some pointers?
    >>
    >>
    >
    >
    > Is there such a thing as a PXE boot disk? I thought PXE was a
    > wholly hardware/network based booting method.
    >
    > IE., if the hardware (BIOS and NIC) supports PXE, then that's all
    > you need to boot that machine from the network.
    >
    >
    >
    > -David
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