Hi Tomas,
While the paid version of serva has more features, I would really assume that booting ISO over network is one of the things you can do for free. And I believe you said booting from usb is not supported on aopen? If you google: "pxe" iso freedos then you get a list of other people explaining how they did it. For example if you assume that your boot files are on the server in /var/lib/tftpboot (or equivalent Windows place) then you could put the ISO and (!) a boot floppy at /var/lib/tftpboot/freedos/floppy.img /var/lib/tftpboot/freedos/freedos.iso and memdisk from the syslinux package at /var/lib/tftpboot/memdisk then you make a pxelinux.cfg/default config as either # FreeDOS label live-fd menu label FreeDOS Live system linux memdisk initrd freedos/fdboot.img or alternatively just # FreeDOS installation label install_fd menu label FreeDOS Instalaltion linux memdisk initrd freedos/fd11src-1.1.iso append iso The "append" tells the memdisk that the image to load already is an image, so the second style is for booting the full ISO while the first style demonstrates booting only the virtual floppy. Note that this will eat as much RAM as the size of your ISO. As you have mentioned that the memdisk may need the "raw" option, you can just write that in the "append" line, I think. One thing which is popular to boot DOS is RUFUS: https://superuser.com/questions/438120/making-a-pxe-bootable-10mb-or-larger-dos-image https://rufus.ie/ If you want to consume less RAM, you can copy the ISO on your C: partition using Windows and then use SHSUCDHD in FreeDOS to mount the ISO as a virtual CD :-) That way, you could do a minimal install via PXE first and later open the virtual CD to install the remaining apps. Cheers, Eric _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
