[syslinux] Booting MSDOS disk images

[Ryan Go]

On Wed, 3 Aug 2005, Mr Tyrese wrote:

> I've been sitting in on this mailing list for a long while now, and I wanted 
> to know, if there are any guide lines on getting a system to boot a DOS boot 
> disk over the wire, ie, via PXE booting? I know this has been covered, and I 
> am also googling for a site to help me out, but I thought I would ask anyway, 
> so that I don't get lead astray.
>
> I have a thin client setup already up and running, and it would be pure bliss 
> to be able to plug in a network cable, and load all my boot disks up.

Over here, we use pxelinux & memdisk for our DOS based firmware updates.

Set memdisk as your kernel and the bootdisk image as your initrd in the 
config file.

HTH,
 	<< ryan