[syslinux] PXEboot large image creation

Serge de Souza serge at cs.curtin.edu.au
Thu Jan 26 18:15:42 PST 2006


Gustavo Guillermo Pérez wrote:
> El Lunes, 23 de Enero de 2006 23:40, Serge de Souza escribió:
> 
>>Hi,
>>
>>I am trying to create an image that is larger than 1.44MB to be used
>>with PXE boot (Ghost 8 requires 2 floppys). My current attempts result
>>in the boot hanging at :
> 
> There are more efective ways than using ghost for backup and restoration, just 
> compress or uncompress raw images of your cleaned disks or partitions.
> 
> :S


I am using ghost to create and deploy an image to 200 new workstations 
using multicasting. I think for this purpose it is a pretty good tool.

>>My config just says the following:
>>default memdisk
>>append initrd=smalldos.img
> 
> default gs
> label gs
> kernel memdisk
> append initrd=smalldos.img
> 
> 

Even with this it gives the same result.

Thanks
Serge




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