[wplug] bootdiskless upgrade

[Vanco, Donald]

James O'Kane wrote:
> On Sun, 20 Apr 2003, Vanco, Donald wrote:
>> 	Have you tried burning them at 4X or slower?
> 
> Yes, it's a 4x burner, so I burned them at 2x or 4x. They read fine,
> just they won't boot with the drive in question. It's possible the
> system in question doesn't support bootable cdroms.
> 
>> <snippage>
>> 	Actually, if you use the pxelinux/islolinux stuff (instead of merely
>> the floppy image) you'll have every available driver there is in RHL.
> 
> That's too easy :)
> Does the pxelinux part require a tftp server and an ethernet card
> with a bootprom? I don't think this ethernet card supports that.

	No -  you basically do the same stuff you did with the floppy image.
While it's technically designed for building a PXE environment, there are
folks doing pretty much what you're doing, as well as using the stuff to
build other bootable "things"...

Don