Re: Diskless box & PXE

[Rudhuwan Abu Bakar <duan@mimos.my>]

Hi Peter

Can I have some of those PXE document too. Really appreciate it cause I am
doing some testing with PXE as well but I am using bootp instead of
dhcp.Can it be done?

Thanks and regard

On Thu, 28 Oct 1999, Peter Finlay wrote:

> 
> I used rh5.2 dhcp with bpBatch and was able to get it to work.
> Please get intel pxe linux doc.  I did not used a dhcp proxy nor did I
> compile the special pxe.o file.
> The dot.o file is pxe's bpBatch.
> I just heard that RH6.1 coming out this week or next is shipping with an
> Intel PXE something.  
> 
> Here was my flow
> DHCP had some pxe_client info added as option lines.
> bpBatch slow style (noextension) was loaded as the boot file.  The net card
> and   NFS root are in the boot image and then rdev'd.  The root was a large
> selective copy of the original machine under tftpboot with fstab and some
> other files linked in or modified for each client.  Each client got his own
> copy.  This worked with pre 1.0 or 2.0 pxe.  Which is now on cards.  The
> newer pxe needed different dhcp option lines.
> I wanted to use bpBatch because of the pxe-proxy qestions and the fact that
> Intel code was for 5.2. 
> bpBatch is ok for testing but commercial use is licenced I think.
> If you want to pursue this I can track down doc and my files.
> Peter
> At 04:16 PM 10/28/1999 +0300, you wrote:
> >
> >	Hello,
> > 
> > I don't know if you'll find my problem trivial, but here it is: I'm
> >trying to netboot a machine with an Intel EtherExpress adapter which knows
> >as boot protocols RLP and PXE. I haven't been able to find any coherent
> >documentation on this PXE, and etherboot doesn't work with it.
> > I would very much appreciate any info and/or suggestions.
> >	Thank you
> >
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