On Aug 11, 2007, at 8:44 PM, Robert G. Brown wrote:
Sure. You can PXE-boot DOS (which doesn't need to fit on a floppy
sized
image, actually). Last time I looked, there were some bootable DOS
images freely available on the net -- google turns up e.g.
http://www.bootdisk.com/bootdisk.htm
pretty readily. So create a PXE bootable remote-mountable
partition and
pop the BIOS flash program on that, and write a suitable autoexec.bat.
Terminate the image in the batch file with the mandatory reboot,
and set
up suitable DHCP toggles so that you start the flash by hand, then it
defaults to a kickstart install, then it defaults to a local disk
boot,
in that order.
I've had good luck with a slight variation on this. using a 32bit
linux install, fire up dosemu with a pseudo hard drive set to a
file. fdisk it, format it, sys it and copy everything you will need
to it. shut down dosemu and gzip the file. you can then drop the
file into your tftpboot dir and pxe boot machines from it.
jason
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