[syslinux] Pxelinux/memdisk with XP "MS-DOS" boot disk

[Dan Petersen]

At 11:00 AM 1/1/2004, you wrote:

>Did you read my earlier reply?
>
>If you are booting via PXE, then you do not need any kind of "network
>card auto-detection".  A single DOS network driver (undis3c.dos) will
>support *all* PXE-capable network cards.  (Not 60, or 100, but all of
>them, present and future.)  This is one of the beauties of PXE.
>
>  - Pat

Many of the PCs don't have PXE (or one that works properly), so I'm looking 
for a way to get it to work the same whether booted from a floppy, bootable 
CD, or PXE.  I could make one disk image and one PXE, but I'm trying to 
avoid having to maintain two different boot processes.

I've had some success using FreeDOS instead of the XP boot kernel, so that 
may be the way to go.  Thanks for your suggestion though, I'll keep that in 
mind when most PCs that need to be booted this way are able to use 
PXE.  We're getting there, slowly...