[K12OSN] PXE boot troubles
Les Mikesell
les at futuresource.com
Mon Oct 3 20:37:30 UTC 2005
On Mon, 2005-10-03 at 14:03, Jim Christiansen wrote:
> I'm trying to attch some old Dell boxes to repace a few mistreated computers
> in a computer lab. The Dells have a PXE boot option in the BIOS. I set it
> to boot only from pxe and it begins to do so...
>
> I have also inserted the mac address into my dhcp.confg file.. I do this to
> dole out ips and the Dell messages that it is using the proper ip.
>
> Then it replies:
>
> PXE-E3A: TFTP too many packages
>
> Then it errors out. Does anyone have suggestions?
Depending on how old the old Dell boxes are, they probably need a
flash bios update. Dell is pretty good about making those available
for download from their web site. Or you can use an etherboot
floppy instead.
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Les Mikesell
les at futuresource.com
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