[syslinux] keeppxe+memdisk+FreeDOS example?

[Bernd Blaauw]

Ferenc Wagner schreef:
> Thanks for the pointer.  It will take some time to evaluate.  I'm
> starting to see that it's much more complicated than I expected.  And
> the memory hit makes it somewhat of questionnable usefulness...
>   
My apologies if the post was already answered (catching up from 
holiday). the PXElinux KEEPPXE option keeps both the PXE and UNDI parts 
in memory instead of only the UNDI part. the "MS Client " network stack 
for DOS (which is intended to give access to NT4/2000/XP SMB-shares) can 
be downloaded from Microsoft ftp servers as 2 disks (including 
PROTMAN.DOS). Sites like http://www.netbootdisk.com/ and www.nu2.nu and 
www.veder.com might be able to give you more of a hint.

It seems strange, but the best way to get things working initially is to 
get the DOS drivers for your specific network card working, rather than 
the universal ones.  Later on  you can make the bootdisk more generic by 
switching to UNDIS3C driver.  Eric Auer from the FreeDOS  project has 
some tools on his website, mainly to get arguments from the syslinux 
commandline, to see if KEEPPXE is present for example. It can be found 
at http://www.coli.uni-saarland.de/~eric/stuff/soft/

Anyway, I don't know if someone will ever contribute a 'unload PXE stack 
but keep UNDI stack' implementation/patch to PXElinux.
I'm testing PXE booting so far with EmBoot's universal packet driver, 
but the registered download they sent is incomplete and email support 
seems to be absent so far, maybe requiring forum access for support. I 
simply dont like the entire MS client software (copyrights, distribution 
etc), so sticking to PXE booting + (universal) packet driver + Wget to 
do what I want.

Goodluck with your netboot project,

Bernd