[K12OSN] PXE boot troubles

[Les Mikesell]

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