There is also an Open Source PXE server http://syslinux.zytor.com/pxe.php. I have not tried it yet but need to set one up soon and see if I can make it work on an LTSP network.
If you try the PXE server and have any luck with it please post some details.
On Sun, 2006-06-25 at 17:52 -0600, Robert Campbell wrote:
Hi All
I've been challenged to setup about 20 diskless boot stations, either on solaris, or linux, on the cheap. and I'm favoring linux. but am not that familiar with PXE-boot capable NIC's.
Are all/most nics PXE-bootable these days, and if not, how do I tell, other than the obvious wayalso. If I have to buy NIC's, which are cheap and PXE-bootable.
On Sun, 2006-06-25 at 14:03 -0600, bogi wrote:I am just guessing here, but could Mitchell have just copied the floppy image onto the floppy and not written the image itself onto the floppy.... dd if=floppy_image of=/dev/fd0 This is a very common mistake, there are 2 ways to copy an image onto a drive, one is by cp , essentially putting the image onto the drive as a file, the other , dd, would actually read the contents of the image and put them on the drive sector by sector. The image would contain all the sectors, boot record and data alike needed to create the boot floppy, hence when you dd the image onto the media /dev/fd0, you would format and create a bootable floppy with all the extra files needed for your ltsp or whatever. The only other reasons why this would not work, is you have a faulty floppy, the image was corrupted or your floppy does not boot. Cheers Szemir On June 25, 2006 13:31, Jesse Kline wrote: > On Sun, 2006-25-06 at 13:18 -0600, Mitchell Brown wrote: > > I tried downloading it, but, after customizing the floppy conf file, > > it keeps saying "No configuration floppy inserted. Insert and > > reboot". > > It's lying. > > I could see how this would be complicated for a nube ;-). I setup the > PXE image. I setup a tftp server to serve the image, and a bootp server > to handle network booting. I then downloaded the floppy image which > connects to the bootp server, gets the address of the tftp server, > downloads the image and boots up. > > Jesse > > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying_______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php)
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