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omri.il at gmail

Jun 9, 2007, 3:58 PM

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Netbooting an ISO image

Hello people,

First of all, sorry if this question is a bit off topic.

Is it possible to netboot an ISO image with pxelinux?
If not, is it possible with some other pxe bootloader?

Best Regards,
Omri Bahumi

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hpa at zytor

Jun 9, 2007, 4:11 PM

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Re: Netbooting an ISO image [In reply to]

omri wrote:
> Hello people,
>
> First of all, sorry if this question is a bit off topic.
>
> Is it possible to netboot an ISO image with pxelinux?
> If not, is it possible with some other pxe bootloader?
>

FAQ. No, and no.

-hpa

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allen.schultz at gmail

Jun 9, 2007, 7:28 PM

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Re: Netbooting an ISO image [In reply to]

I got confused on this topic personally. Found something that required a
tftp with (dont remember right phrases) images of the filesystem compressed
or the iso for a live boot. Again, left me confused.

On 6/9/07, H. Peter Anvin <hpa [at] zytor> wrote:
>
> omri wrote:
> > Hello people,
> >
> > First of all, sorry if this question is a bit off topic.
> >
> > Is it possible to netboot an ISO image with pxelinux?
> > If not, is it possible with some other pxe bootloader?
>
> FAQ. No, and no.
>
> -hpa
>
>
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bblaauw at home

Jun 9, 2007, 11:57 PM

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Re: Netbooting an ISO image [In reply to]

Allen Schultz schreef:
> I got confused on this topic personally. Found something that required a
> tftp with (dont remember right phrases) images of the filesystem compressed
> or the iso for a live boot. Again, left me confused.
>
No single ISO can be netbooted by itself through PXE. You'll always have
to put a bootup part of the ISO on the server.
Pxelinux then downloads this part and executes it, and the executed
program finds the ISO by itself and mounts it,
then continues booting. WinPE does this, BartPE, and many Linux
distributions and likely also more slightly exotic operating systems
like BSD.

with a TFTP client program I could also make FreeDOS do this, but so far
experiments have only been made with HTTP through Wget.
(some people using a ftp.exe program).
I don't know of any opensource DOS client software that can handle SMB
protocol or any Linux network mounting methods.

No idea how RIS (Win2000/XP/2003) works, got no serverOS from Microsoft.

Bernd

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