Syslinux - Sep 2004 - PXE Bootdisk

Hello,

I hope that I am applying this question to the correct place, if not I do
apologise!

I would like to create a boot floppy which mimics a PXE rom.
In this instance I would like to boot very old non PXE NIC workstations and
install them from our Windows RIS.

Is it necessary that I create a some sort of full Linux boot cd to use for this
purpose or is there a pre prepared boot disk already available?

Regards

Howard

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On Fri, 3 Sep 2004, Howard Young wrote:
>I would like to create a boot floppy which mimics a PXE rom.
Either Microsoft's RBFG.exe, which comes with Windows Server (2000 and
2003, but with better hardware support in the latter), or
etherboot[1,2].


Cheers,
Phil

[1] http://etherboot.sourceforge.net/
[2] http://rom-o-matic.net/

Hello,

I have read about the ether boot site but so far as I could tell (though I am
not the sharpest tool in the box) it required that one purchase boot proms and I
had no luck in finding a uk reseller; or at least one who charged a sufficiently
low price i.e. ?4 or less. This is why I hoped to created a 3.5" floppy
boot disk which would effectively boot as though a pxe rom.

As much as I would love to dig out the old prom writer from the attic I think my
manager would frown. , then give me a piece of paper saying go and work for
someone else.

No doubt I have not understood the documentation on Ether boot? so I must ask if
this is the case or is it possible to generate a boot floppy that readdresses
its self as the bootrom - or something equally as beyond my own understanding
but similar in function?

Tattered Regards

Howard



-----Original Message-----
From: Philip Rowlands [mailto:phr at doc.ic.ac.uk]
Sent: 03 September 2004 18:34
To: syslinux at zytor.com
Subject: Re: [syslinux] PXE Bootdisk


On Fri, 3 Sep 2004, Howard Young wrote:
>I would like to create a boot floppy which mimics a PXE rom.
Either Microsoft's RBFG.exe, which comes with Windows Server (2000 and
2003, but with better hardware support in the latter), or
etherboot[1,2].


Cheers,
Phil

[1] http://etherboot.sourceforge.net/
[2] http://rom-o-matic.net/

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> No doubt I have not understood the documentation on Ether boot? so I must
ask if this is the case or is it possible to generate a boot floppy that
readdresses its self as the bootrom - or something equally as beyond my own
understanding but similar in function?
That is possible. Use rom-o-matic and choose the corresponding output 
format.

Cheers
Alex