[syslinux] My little project

[John Francis Lee]

Greetings,

I help out at an Internet Cafe here and would like to install FC3 and/or
LinuxTLE on our existing machines, all but one of which which do not
have cdrom drives.

In the past I made a boot floppy and then installed using ftp from a
central machine which served the distribution files.

Now there is no floppy disk image with either distribution. 

I thought I'd try pxeboot, but our machines don't make any provision for
booting over usb and won't boot via pxe even after selecting that option
as choice 1 in the bios configuration. I assume that is because the bios
doesn't know of the existence of the ethercard in each machine.

So now I am thinking of creating a dos partition on each machine's
hardrive, installing syslinux thereon, copying the FC3 and LinuxTLE
vmlinuz and initrd.gz files thereto, and creating an appropriate
syslinux.cfg to allow either or both systems to be installed.

After the installation I imagine I can make a boot from this dos
partition, and thence a boot from syslinux, one of the alternatives
offered by grub. Then in future I would need only change the
syslinux.cfg and add appropriate kernel and ramdisk files for new
versions of linux.

So... I need some version of dos for its mbr? That's what I understand
from the documentation. Is that really correct?

-- 
John Francis Lee
1/9-10 Thanon Trairat
Muang Chiang Rai 57000
Thailand