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...clients. But now, I thought, It would be really a great Idea to make my clients able to start Partition Magic over the Net via PXE. Because of this Idea, I first tried to make a bootable network floppy, that connects me to my Server Share. I made this Bootfloppy with the software "BackMagic Netboot" and everything was working, this means my client was able to boot with this floppy and to connect to the server share. No I was reading some articles about PXE and made a floppy Image of this boot floppy disc. But when I now start my client in PXE Mode and tell him the name of...

...orce reboot after partitioning. By then the decision if the bootimage or the HD should be booted depends on a verification by a shell script in /pxelinux.cfg/default reading the statusinfo that the bootdisk's script has placed in i.E. /pxelinux.cfg/%MACADDR%/status.txt (UTILITY MACENV.EXE from Backmagic Netboot) puts the MacAddress in an envvar THE FUTURE: If this works it is possible to define i.E. 0 for Do nothing and 12 for a clean unattended w2k or linux ks.cfg installation AND: using batched etherboot provides dedicated setup for assigned clients Should be the start of an interface (VB6?)....