RE: Support for NT, Win2K and ... Millenium

["mkanar" <mkanar_lists@hotmail.com>]

Gero,

Let me start off by saying thanks for your continued efforts.  I
completely understand your reasons for not trying to support something
that seemingly doesn't want to be supported.  It isn't like Microsoft is
calling you up and providing assistance to you or anything.....in fact,
the information I assume is not even available.

I apologize for my lack of expertise, but I do have just a few questions
in reference to this issue.

First, I noticed that 3com has a product called 3com Virtual LAN drive
which appears to allow PXE compliant boot ROMS the capability to
completely map a virtual drive to a drive image file on the server, then
allowing for WinNT/2K to be installed.  I don't know if this is in fact
true or not true, but maybe somebody on this maillist has used the
product and has some comments that others may be interested in hearing.

So just out of curiosity, is it the RAM drive that causes problems,
since it uses memory that an operating system might want?  I'm just
curious what the different is between for example a network boot bios
and a SCSI boot BIOS.  However, I lack even the knowledge to have any
right to even ask this question, so feel free to ignore it!  :)   Hey,
I'm interested in how everything works, but I have not a clue where to
start here.  :)

Thanks again!
Matt



-----Original Message-----
From: owner-netboot@baghira.han.de [mailto:owner-netboot@baghira.han.de]
On Behalf Of Gero Kuhlmann
Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 9:09 PM
To: netboot@baghira.han.de
Subject: Re: Support for NT, Win2K and ... Millenium


Hello,

You wrote:
>Can anyone explain why "Windows-NT will never be
>supported."

That's because nobody except me has actually written a
bootloader yet, and I personally will not support Win2K
or Windows NT, because I'm not interested in those and
don't have any licences for those systems.

If there is anybody who really wants to write a boot loader for
any of these Microsoft systems, please feel free to contact me
for futher information. I know about someone presently working
on a loader for NetBSD. However, Unix is much easier to suppport
because it is much more open - even the commercial Unices. For
systems like Windows-NT you probably have to figure out how the
boot process works by using a debugger.

gero.

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