[syslinux] PXE max boot image size?

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Wed Mar 20 15:03:03 PST 2002


Trey.Harris at morganstanley.com wrote:
>
> Ah. So, short of the ~1GB limit, it's bounded by the size of the system
> RAM, not anything on the NIC? That was my question--most of our systems
> have 4GB RAM or more.  Sounds like it won't be an issue, even if we tried
> to ship an entire CD-ROM image--network bandwidth would be a problem far
> earlier.
> 

No other limit.  MEMDISK supports up to 4 GB (obviously, you'll have no
memory left for the OS if you use that much.)

	-hpa





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