[TriLUG] PXELinux and ISO's

Andrew Ball anball at gmail.com
Mon Jul 17 14:52:11 EDT 2006


WinPE can be booted over PXE, just checked with some deployment folks
nearby.

Peace.
Andrew

On 7/15/06, Andrew Ball <anball at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hrm.  If WINPE can be booted as some sort of ramdisk, then I think this
> would be possible.  Would be cool!
>
> Andrew
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> Andrew D. Ball
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>
> On 7/14/06, Robert Dale <robdale at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On 7/14/06, Roy Vestal <rvestal at trilug.org> wrote:
> > > I was hoping it was that easy...
> > >
> > > Now to throw a wrench into it...can we do this with a WinPE ISO as
> > well
> > > as A linux ISO?
> >
> > Of course you can mount the ISO, but whether or not WinPE supports
> > booting over a network is a different question ;)
> >
> > > Robert Dale wrote:
> > > > On 7/14/06, Roy Vestal <rvestal at trilug.org> wrote:
> > > >
> > > >> Is there an easy way to get PXELinux to use an ISO image as it's
> > boot
> > > >> img?
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Mount the ISO on your server and export it via NFS.  Then configure
> > > > the DHCP server to set the root path.
> >
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