[syslinux] pxelinux fron Floppy disk?

[Peter Lister]

> This is, however, a different and incompatible solution.

Different, certainly. As you note, pxelinux requires PXE; so when PXE
isn't available, something else is needed for net booting. The config,
kernel and initrd must be represented twice on the server.

But please would you explain "incompatible"? DHCP allows one to use VCIs
to have multiple configurations for different clients, and ISC DHCP v3
has  a tolerable implementation which allows Etherboot and pxelinux can
coexist on a network, whether on the same or seprate servers. Of course,
one should use hpa-tftp to cope with the broken PXE code we are all
forced to use until a decent open-source PXE comes along.

Of course, if Mr Geggus finds that Etherboot works nicely on his non-PXE
nics, he *can* achieve identical configuration for all his workstations
by chaining Etherboot on his PXE systems (Marty Connor's howto at
www.ltsp.org has the details).