[syslinux] syslinux versus pxelinux

Pascal Vandeputte pascal.vandeputte at intec.ugent.be
Sun May 6 08:10:26 PDT 2007


J.H. wrote:
> 
> Not to toot my own horn but if your just trying to duplicate most of the
> resources on UBCD you might want to look at http://pxeknife.erebor.org
> as it will work fine with all of the syslinux family.  UBCD however will
> not as it makes a LOT of assumptions about how it works, where it can
> get things and which utilities and what not it uses to load it's images
> (it's not limited to syslinux).  So the problems you might be seeing in
> getting UBCD to work may not be related to your image or syslinux, it
> may be related to the fact UBCD can't really be converted.
> 
> - John 'Warthog9' Hawley


Yes, I had read about pxeknife before and found it very interesting 
(pity the "free for personal use" stuff can't be included).

The primary reason for trying UBCD though was that it's isolinux-based 
and it was the first one that crossed my mind.

Greetings,

Pascal Vandeputte




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