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What is the difference between PXELINUX and bpbatch ? AFAICT, bpbatch doe not require a TFTP server which supports the 'tsize' option. So in the absence of such a server, I may need to explore bpbatch... It seems that bpbatch can be used to remotely boot DOS. Can PXELINUX also do this? -- John

I've been trying to make up for a mismatch in functionality between bpbatch and pxelinux by trying to use both depending what I'm trying to do by chain booting the two. I'm able to chain boot in either direction, either pxelinux then bpbatch or bpbatch then pxelinux, but once I've done this, and boot either Linux or DOS, I find the adapter I used to network bo...

I'm trying to move off of bpbatch and on to pxelinux (bpbatch doesn't boot the installation kernels for SuSE 8.1 and SLES 8--they appear to be too big). This has been a pretty easy transition, except for the fact that I'm using bpbatch to install Windows 2000 over the network as well as Linux. For Windows 2000 I use a DOS...

...architecture of the hardware that I'm working with utilizes a single USB floppy that is shared across multiple machines and there is no way to add a normal floppy. So to use memdisk right now, I have to boot the floppy image over the network serially, rather than in parallel. I had been using bpbatch without this problem on these systems, but I'm trying to move off of it (it won't boot the installation kernel from the SuSE 8.1 CDs). Of course, I know bpbatch is not open-source, so figuring out how it does things is probably difficult at best. Thanks, --Andy

Hallo I would like to have an image of about 8Mb to boot with ISOLINUX and MEMDISK. I am not able to create an image complete of the MBR, as MEMDISK requires. I think I should emulate an 8Mb disk in memory or on a file, but I am able to do so only for a 'single partition'. Could you please suggest me a way to obtain the image? I can use Linux or Windows tools, it does not matter.

...py (which can also be burned to a CD using El Torito in floppy-emulation mode), is known to work with PXELINUX 2.03 or later only I'm using the free client from 3com, that looks exactly the same as Argon Technology's client. All the PC clients are PXE clients. Firstly I want to say, using bpbatch to boot and load the syslinux image works 100%, but I was forced to use the 3com setup to load other ms dos images (to use the universal ndis pxe dos driver). Now the problem using the Argon/3com boot menu, is that it stops at the screen: Could not find ramdisk image: initrd.gz I would guess that...

...tude for the recent versions of pxelinux and memdisk. They allowed me not only to install Linux, but also to boot those darn rescue Floppys on my IBM ThinkPad X22, which comes without Floppy or CDDROM drive, but a built-in Ethernet card which supports PXE. I also had a look at other projects, like bpbatch, but none were so easy to use and functional as pxelinux. Thanks a lot! Guenther

Hi Is there a possibility to run diskless PCs under Windows 98 or Windows ME with all the files located on a samba server ? TIA Zack ----- La messagerie itin?rante sans abonnement NetCourrier ----- Web : www.netcourrier.com - Minitel : 3615 NETCOURRIER T?l?phone : 08 36 69 00 21

network. I did read somewhere on the web (several years ago) of a guy who managed to boot windows from the net. With the start of Win 98/ME/ etc.etc it's not posible anymore. I currently use PXE to install machine from the net using bpbatch that works great only bpbatch is not really under developnt and the script language is a bit buggy. I see only one option to boot windows from the net and that's using win4lin (works great and fast but I don't use it at the office) or other windows 'simulator'. Don't ask MS how...

...search of the web led me to lots of ways to boot Linux > clients from Linux servers, but no hint as to how to boot Windows > clients from Linux servers. Anyone give me a clue? 2 (free) possibilities I can think of: 1. PXE support in the grub boot loader at ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/grub/ 2. BPBatch from http://www.bpbatch.org Cheers, Martin -- Martin Sapsed To have no errors Information Services Would be life without meaning University of Wales, Bangor, LL57 2UX No struggle, no joy. Fax: +44 (0)1248 383826 Return-Path: <rob.leadbeater@lynx.co.uk> Delivered-To: samba@lists.samb...