PXE boot disks

M A Young m.a.young at durham.ac.uk
Wed Jun 15 15:04:58 UTC 2005


On Wed, 15 Jun 2005, MW Mike Weiner (5028) wrote:

> A somewhat silly question, but how does one go about creating a PXE boot
> disk from the /images/pxeboot files since there is no .img to DD to the
> floppy? Can anyone give me some pointers?

You don't. A pxe enabled network card is told by the DHCP server to
download the pxelinux.0 file (part of the syslinux package) which runs and
downloads a configuration file and gives a boot menu, so you don't need a
floppy.

	Michael Young




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