Network booting a cd?
12 April 2004, 06:58 PM
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Network booting a cd?
Evening everyone,
I am attempting to install redhat fedora on a laptop with no cd drive or floppy which has onboard LAN and an option to boot from LAN on startup. I thought it might be quite simple but im obviously missing something! I select boot from network when the laptop first starts, it attempts to obtain an address by dhcp which im assuming works as its connected to a linksys router with dhcp enabled but then says no boot file name received and proceeds to try and boot manually.
the cd is in the cd drive of another networked machine running windows xp
is there something im doing badly wrong?
Cheers
David
I am attempting to install redhat fedora on a laptop with no cd drive or floppy which has onboard LAN and an option to boot from LAN on startup. I thought it might be quite simple but im obviously missing something! I select boot from network when the laptop first starts, it attempts to obtain an address by dhcp which im assuming works as its connected to a linksys router with dhcp enabled but then says no boot file name received and proceeds to try and boot manually.
the cd is in the cd drive of another networked machine running windows xp
is there something im doing badly wrong?
Cheers
David
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12 April 2004, 07:36 PM
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Well, yes.
First off, the laptop would have no idea there's a CD in your Windows XP machine, so you need to tell it somehow.
secondly, the whole idea of "booting" means that it loads an Operating System - hence why you need some sort of bootimage on the network. This is an image of a loadable operating system e.g. like an image of a bootable DOS diskette.
Personally, I've never tried it, but I think you need a TFTP server for the laptop to download a bootable image.
Have a look here
If you do need to setup a TFTP server, there's plenty of free software available and it's no more than running the app on another PC.
Stefan
First off, the laptop would have no idea there's a CD in your Windows XP machine, so you need to tell it somehow.
secondly, the whole idea of "booting" means that it loads an Operating System - hence why you need some sort of bootimage on the network. This is an image of a loadable operating system e.g. like an image of a bootable DOS diskette.
Personally, I've never tried it, but I think you need a TFTP server for the laptop to download a bootable image.
Have a look here
If you do need to setup a TFTP server, there's plenty of free software available and it's no more than running the app on another PC.
Stefan
12 April 2004, 08:43 PM
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Originally Posted by ozzy
Well, yes.
First off, the laptop would have no idea there's a CD in your Windows XP machine, so you need to tell it somehow.
secondly, the whole idea of "booting" means that it loads an Operating System - hence why you need some sort of bootimage on the network. This is an image of a loadable operating system e.g. like an image of a bootable DOS diskette.
Personally, I've never tried it, but I think you need a TFTP server for the laptop to download a bootable image.
Have a look here
If you do need to setup a TFTP server, there's plenty of free software available and it's no more than running the app on another PC.
Stefan
First off, the laptop would have no idea there's a CD in your Windows XP machine, so you need to tell it somehow.
secondly, the whole idea of "booting" means that it loads an Operating System - hence why you need some sort of bootimage on the network. This is an image of a loadable operating system e.g. like an image of a bootable DOS diskette.
Personally, I've never tried it, but I think you need a TFTP server for the laptop to download a bootable image.
Have a look here
If you do need to setup a TFTP server, there's plenty of free software available and it's no more than running the app on another PC.
Stefan
on trying to telnet to the tftp server (port 69 i believe) from another windows machine but it wont connect which is odd.
Suggestions welcome to save my hair
12 April 2004, 08:50 PM
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have a look on the xp install cd, may give you details for remote install & details of creating a pxe bootimage..
Not done it myself, nor no anyone who has with win based os
Not done it myself, nor no anyone who has with win based os
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