I've can boot floppy images (eg toms, barts) booting via pxe. I can also boot initrd's via pxe. Would be very cool to be able to boot iso's (knoppix, gentoo-basic) via pxe also. Looking thru the docs, looks like this would not be a straightforward thing. Would need to loop mount the iso, then loop mount the .img. Or else copy them all the pertinent files to the tftpboot directory. Or some combination. In any case, doesn't look like straightforward. Am I missing something? or would it really be this convoluted? Ideally, what I'd like to do is just grab the latest iso of whatever, and symlink it to the pxe config. I was thinking this would be an FAQ, but I didn't find any reference, so if it is please accept my apologies, and point me to the references. Thanks in advance. LT
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello... L wrote: | I've can boot floppy images (eg toms, barts) booting via pxe. I can also boot | initrd's via pxe. Would be very cool to be able to boot iso's (knoppix, | gentoo-basic) via pxe also. Not possible, since emulating a CDROM drive on BIOS level is an unneccessary hard job and even if it was implemented: Linux uses direct hardware access once the kernel is started. So it wouldn't find the CD-Emulation. On a bootable CD there has to be a file for the kernel and the Floppy images. Use them for your PXE-Linux-Config. If they use ISOlinux it might even be more straightforward - look in their config-file and copy the needed bits... bye Christian -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE/r5Kp2gF1h3CVOsMRAqXyAKDrqws6OZp9acPGMe2tlhWZKAIZUgCgn1/D V8MP/Q00dqpseSULwcHtTGg=6a9h -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----