[syslinux] PXELinux sending a boot disquette image? Is this possible?
Philip Rowlands
phr at doc.ic.ac.uk
Fri Aug 13 01:28:45 PDT 2004
On Fri, 13 Aug 2004 bricolo at beroot.org wrote:
>Is it possible, with PXELinux, to send the floppy image (or the
>bootable cd image) to the remote computers, instead of a linux image?
>The floppy image is in a .fr format, the cd in a .iso one. Does
>PXElinux support this format? And how can I do it?
Yes, with the aid of memdisk. An entry like this:
label memdisk
kernel memdisk
append initrd=floppy.img
in PXElinux's config file will cause the floppy image to be transferred
from the TFTP server and booted as though it were in the local drive.
Cheers,
Phil
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