[syslinux] Large disk image boot. Any suggestions%3

[robotti at godmail.com]

>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?

You can create one bootable disk image and boot the other ones from it,
using memdisk.

label 1
kernel memdisk
append initrd=image1

label 2
kernel memdisk
append initrd=image2

etc...

The single image can be a bootable CD (isolinux) or USB (syslinux) image.

The CD image is created using mkisofs and the USB image is created using
mkdosfs.

I quess you can also just create one bootable USB DOS image, without
using syslinux and memdisk.