[syslinux] Growing out of floppy images, what's the best alternative?

[Miller, Shao]

Good day Daniel,

In regards to PXELINUX-booting various DOS scenarios:

Your idea for an .ISO with all of your DOS choices seems nice to me.
You'd obviously require enough RAM for a MEMDISK if you do this.  If you
do, you might be interested in:
- The FDIMAGE directive in your ISOLINUX.CFG file for floppy images you
have
- Gary Tong's and Bart Lagerweij's ELTORITO.SYS DOS driver (ported to
NASM by H. Peter Anvin and now included in Syslinux with kind permission
from Bart) for access to the MEMDISK .ISO from a floppy image

An alternative approach you might also be interested in is SAN-booting;
RAM versus SAN.  'vblade' is such a simple thing to set up, then you can
boot to a SAN with gPXE or WinAoE's aoe.0 file.  Since you have
networking anyway, this would save you RAM.

Fortunately, it's pretty simple to port a pxelinux.cfg/default file over
to become an isolinux.cfg file. :)

- Shao Miller