[K12OSN] universal etherboot iso?

[Eric Harrison]

Les Mikesell wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-03-21 at 12:46, David H. Barr wrote:
>
>
>>>image to start with.  What's an eb2hd?   The reason I need this is
>>
>>[snip]
>>
>>
>>>I want to be able to load other things on the HD.
>>
>>Etherboot to (2) Hard Disk: http://etherboot.anadex.de/  It's what I used
>>to set up my 5-station test lab.  I downloaded the floppy image, then used
>>Nero to burn a bootable CD of it.
>
>
> That worked in terms of k3b accepting it as a boot image and making a
> bootable iso.  However, it wants to install a copy on the HD and all I
> want to do is netboot directly WDXB2500JBRNNfrom the iso.  I think the
> difference is that the eb2hd floppy image uses freedos/syslinux to boot
> where the floppy I want to use is just like an etherboot ROM image with
> no separate loader - and k3b (etc) doesn't like it.  I guess I need
> the etherboot image in a .com file format with a dos framework and
> autoexec.bat to load it.
>

I was rather displeased to see that it wanted to repartion/format my
harddrive :-(

I rebuilt it to just load etherboot off the iso image. This only works
for PCI nics, however, no go for old ISA cards. Still it might be useful
to someone. I put my hacked version here:

	ftp://k12linux.mesd.k12.or.us/pub/K12LTSP/testing/eb_pci.iso

-Eric
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