[syslinux] Network booting DOS with IPX support
Adam Nielsen
a.nielsen at optusnet.com.au
Sun Nov 7 02:00:51 PST 2004
Hi all,
I'm trying to work out how to boot DOS on a diskless PC, and I've come
to a bit of a stumbling block with loading IPX support (which is
extremely important, since most DOS games use IPX for network play ;-))
So far thanks to PXELinux and Memdisk I've gotten a DOS floppy image
booting successfully, but I'm stuck trying to get IPX support.
Admittedly I don't have much experience in this area, but I was hoping
I'd be able to use the UNDI/PXE stack as a universal driver, so that I
can load IPX on any computer with a PXE bootrom (i.e. no hardware
specific network drivers.) Has anyone tried this before? There seems
to be a bit of talk on Google about it (UNDI is NDIS2, NDIS to ODI
shim?!? etc.) but no real solutions given in the end (well none that I
could understand, anyway ;-))
If anyone has any ideas about doing this I'd be grateful if you could
share them!
Thanks,
Adam.
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