[K12OSN] DOS Boot Image via LTSP TFTP?

[Joe Korzeniewski]

John,

What I would do is set another disk image in the /tftpboot/pxe folder and reference it in /tftpboot/pxe/pxelinux.cfg/default file (you will also need the memdisk file from syslinux in your /tftpboot/pxe folder, get it from http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/boot/syslinux/ - it is the extentionless memdisk file in the memdisk folder). Display.msg would be a text file in the pxe folder containing some instructions on what to type, I would suggest you leave that out (that way people won't be booting to ghost unless they know the label). Here is what default could look like (between tags)

--------BEGIN default-------

DEFAULT linux
TIMEOUT 50
PROMPT 1
DISPLAY display.msg

LABEL ghost
 kernel memdisk
 append initrd=ghostboot

LABEL linux
 kernel vmlinuz.ltsp
 append root=/dev/ram0 rw initrd=initramfs.gz

-------END default--------

As far as making the "ghostboot" image, I used winimage to combine both disks made in the boot wizard into a 2.88mb disk image and saved it in raw format (.ima). Make sure that you are viewing hidden and system files otherwise some important files won't be copied and you won't be able to boot. 

Good luck,
Joe


Joe Korzeniewski
Technology Director
Mason County Eastern Schools
231-757-1120


>>> jbaillie at stmarys-school.org 2/22/2007 9:24 am >>>
Hello,

We dual boot K12ltsp / Win2K Pro.  We are receiving a shipment of 2nd 
hand XP boxes tomorrow so I need to create an dual boot k12 / XP image 
and deploy it.
I was looking at the 3com boot services CD that came with Ghost and it 
works like LTSP. So I was think since I already have a bootTP server 
maybe I could drop in a DOS image temporarily?

Does this seem doable?

Thanks,
John

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