[syslinux] PXELinux sending a boot disquette image? Is this possible?

[Philip Rowlands]

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