Syslinux - Sep 2005 - pxelinux on a cdrom - possible?

I'm using PXE booting to make operating system installations.

There is one problem with it - it won't work when BIOS or NIC doesn't 
support network booting.

Is it possible to put pxelinux somehow on a CD or on a floppy?


-- 
Tomek
http://wpkg.org

Here,

http://www.rom-o-matic.net

You can create and download images to write to floppy to do PXE boot, and eaven
ISO images to do the same..

You need to know the make, model, and PCI ID for the NIC in the system you are
too boot.



Else you could use the Microsofts RBFG.EXE tool:

Remote Installation Boot Disk Option
The remote installation boot disk can be used with computers that do not contain
a remote boot-enabled ROM on the network card. The boot disk is designed to
simulate the PXE boot process for computers that lack a supported DHCP PXE-based
remote boot ROM. The boot disk generator utility is called RBFG.EXE and is
located within the \RemoteInstall\admin directory on every Remote Installation
Server.

The RBFG.exe utility is also contained within the Administrator Tools package
that ships with Windows 2000 Server. The Administrator Tools package can be
deployed across your organization using either Systems Management Server 2.0 or
using the new Software Management feature, which is part of the Group Policy
infrastructure.


I did not have any sucess using the Microsft Boot floppy though....


Cheers
Harald Jens?s

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Subject: [syslinux] pxelinux on a cdrom - possible?

I'm using PXE booting to make operating system installations.

There is one problem with it - it won't work when BIOS or NIC doesn't
support network booting.

Is it possible to put pxelinux somehow on a CD or on a floppy?


--
Tomek
http://wpkg.org

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> I'm using PXE booting to make operating system installations.
> 
> There is one problem with it - it won't work when BIOS or NIC
doesn't
> support network booting.
> 
> Is it possible to put pxelinux somehow on a CD or on a floppy?
You can use Etherboot .zdsk and .liso/.iso images. Get them from 
http://rom-o-matic.net/

You can also try my all-drivers Etherboot floppy: 
http://etherboot.anadex.de/

Cheers
Alex

On 9/21/05, Tomasz Chmielewski <mangoo at wpkg.org>
wrote:
> I'm using PXE booting to make operating system installations.
>
> There is one problem with it - it won't work when BIOS or NIC
doesn't
> support network booting.
>
> Is it possible to put pxelinux somehow on a CD or on a floppy?
>
This won't help you to netboot a PC without a PXE enabled NIC/BIOS, pxelinux
takes over after the netboot starts and loads it from network.
 What you are looking for is Etherboot, see www.etherboot.org and
 www.rom-o-matic.org

 .. now that I think of it, you could use the ethersel with syslinux
with etherboot,
mr. Heinz was kind enough to provide us with
http://etherboot.anadex.de/ and the
wonderfull PXE-O-MATIC image :) than can netboot without PXE/BIOS support.

hth,
mitu