[syslinux] Large disk image boot. Any suggestions?

Marco Descher marco.descher at fhv.at
Sat Aug 20 07:26:06 PDT 2005


Hy Gary,

I'm workin' on something the like, maybe you should take a look at this
page:
http://www.nu2.nu/bootdisk/network/
it helped me a lot!

cheers,
marco

On Fri, 2005-08-19 at 22:56 -0700, Gary W. Smith wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> 
> I am managing 15 separate boot disks with various network disk images.
> These disk images are used for network installs of Windows OS's.
> Basically the network boot disk contains dos, the network drive in
> question and the connection information to the shared server for doing a
> ghost install.
> 
> The problem is the 1.44 disk doesn't hold enough space to accomplish the
> job.  What I really need is a 16mb or 32mb boot disk in order to do what
> I really want to accomplish.  I have tried using a USB disk formatted
> with dos and ripped the image from linux but that doesn't seem to work.
> 
> Does anyone have any good directions for create a 32mb boot disk which
> boots to dos?  Anyone already have one and willing to share it?  Also,
> what would my PXE boot configuration look like?
> 
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> Thanks, 
> 
> Gary Wayne Smith
> 
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