Hi all, I'm still trying to figure out a good way of booting a DOS disk image via PXE and accessing files over a network share. Having some success with the Microsoft network DOS client, it seems that many programs have issues with its IPX support - so, now I'm trying to use Novell's IPX driver instead. Unfortunately it seems I need an ODI driver to do this, and there are no UNDI/PXE -> ODI drivers available. I have found PDEther however, which is a Packet -> ODI driver, which means I could do something like this: Boot PXE Load UNDI/PXE -> Packet driver Load Packet -> ODI driver Load ODI -> IPX driver Except that I can't find an UNDI/PXE -> Packet driver - does anyone know if one of these exists? (or if there's an UNDI -> ODI driver to skip one step in the chain.) Thanks, Adam.
> I'm still trying to figure out a good way of booting a DOS disk image > via PXE and accessing files over a network share.I use a Dos Boot Disk + PXELinux + memdisk + NICs with PXE/Etherboot + M$ Network Client + PCISCAN (www.nu2.nu) + TCP/IP + Samba Server. It is possible to auto-detect a PCI NIC and load the corresponding driver, so you do not need a UNDI packet driver (it needs a lot of memory in the 640KB area). If you still want to use a UNDI packet driver, there is one by Intel and one by 3com. You have to download the Intel PXE PDK (filename is pxe20-pdk.exe) or the 3Com MBA Utility Disk v4.30 to get them.> Having some success with the Microsoft network DOS client, it seems that > many programs have issues with its IPX support - so, now I'm trying to > use Novell's IPX driver instead. Unfortunately it seems I need an ODI > driver to do this, and there are no UNDI/PXE -> ODI drivers available.I have never tested the IPX protocol (TCP/IP works great) so I cannot tell you anything about it. Alex