[syslinux] Re: Network disk? (like memdisk but over the network)

[Jack Daniel Kelly]

> Adam Nielsen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've successfully got DOS booting over PXE with Memdisk, but as RAM is
> severely limited in the PCs I'm using (only 32-64MB) I can't load a huge
> Memdisk image to run large DOS programs, Windows, etc.
>
> Are there any programs out there like Memdisk, but instead of storing
> the disk in RAM they read it over the network?  (A "netdisk" program.)
> This would be a really useful lightweight solution, as it's pretty
> painful trying to mount a network drive through DOS for the same sort of
> thing.
>
>
Try bart's network bootdisk, and connect it to a windows/samba share with
something like: net use <letter>: \\<server>\<share>

I have it working on a win98 laptop with some ancient processor, running
tfptd32.