[syslinux] KEEPPXE/DOS

[Jonathan Hurd]

Yeah ghost works fine in dos as far as imaging a host. It's just I want to ghost the client from an image file located on a samba host. To do that I need IP connectivity.

And yes I've look at G4U and definitly want to try it out in the near future, but need to get something up interim.


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From: Michael D. Setzer II <mikes at kuentos.guam.net>
To: Jonathan Hurd <texasjhurd at yahoo.com>
Sent: Friday, December 14, 2007 4:01:50 PM
Subject: Re: [syslinux] KEEPPXE/DOS

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Unfortunately, I don't know anything about the kepppxedos, but do have a 
question of what you are trying to do? I assume that you are talking about a 
Norton Ghos Image, and that is the reference to DOS. 

I've used Notron in the past,  but it failed to work with the later LVM 
partitions, so I had to find a program that supported my lab setups. I found 
that g4u worked fine, and later g4l also worked. G4U is netbsd bassed, and 
g4l is linux based. Both use dd with compression and ftp to make and 
restore images. G4L also includes NTFSCLONE for doing a faster copy of 
the ntfs partition data. Niether program does on the fly resizing like Norton, 
but do work with LVM and other partition types, and don't have the expense 
of having to buy a license for each machine or getting a site license. My 
college has a site license an older Norton Ghost, but didn't get any support 
from them with the LVM failures.

Hopefully, you will get a response that works for your current setup, but if 
not, you might want to look at other options. Also, udpcast is a program if 
you want to image lots of machines at once.


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> First off I love syslinux and it has worked flawless for us on the unix side of the realm.
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> We're trying to use our ghost images within a dos netboot using syslinux. Unfortunatly we can only pass DHCP ip's to hosts that exhibit a vendor code 'like windows/pxe/and other os's do". Unfortunatly DOS does not, so we cannot request a second IP after the pxe process to map samba shares. From what I've read you can use the 'keeppxe' line and call the orrignal ip information recieved durning the pxe boot process? Is that correct, and if so how would I do that. 
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> If that is not the case and I can keep around universal pxe stack to load dhcp again so that it exhibts a vendor code, how could I do that?
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> Basicaly I need a way to map a samba share after the netboot, and I would need an ip address on the network to do that. This would be an automated process so I cant just enter a static... has to be a dhcp enabled one, or one handed from the pxe process...
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