[TriLUG] PXELinux and ISO's

Andrew Ball anball at gmail.com
Sat Jul 15 20:52:57 EDT 2006


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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