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| - | ====== AoE - ATA over Ethernet ====== | ||
| - | Classic/"normal" Operating systems, like: | ||
| - | * many Linux releases | ||
| - | * DOS | ||
| - | * Windows 1.0 - 3.11 | ||
| - | * Windows 9x | ||
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| - | ...just need the Interrupt 13 to run and to do file operations, such as: | ||
| - | * loading Operating system components and booting the Operating System itself | ||
| - | * writing log files | ||
| - | * reading settings | ||
| - | * loading drivers | ||
| - | * ... | ||
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| - | So, the EtherBoot currently supported protocols: | ||
| - | * TFTP | ||
| - | * FSP | ||
| - | * NFS | ||
| - | * HTTP | ||
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| - | provide a certain environment level, which is adequate and sufficient to boot the operating systems mentioned above. | ||
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| - | New Operating systems, like Windows NT, 2000, XP, 2003 require a more in-depth hard disk environment. | ||
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| - | In contrast to the default EtherBoot supported protocols the ATA over Ethernet specification additionally provides/emulates all necessary components for Operating Systems which require an in-depth hard disk / hard disk controller environment[...] | ||
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| - | ====== Chart / Diagram ====== | ||
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| - | <file>Directory or hard disk (or hard disk image) containg an installed Operating System</file> | ||
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| - | <file>AoE Server</file> | ||
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| - | | <= network connection\\ | ||
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| - | <file>Client</file> | ||
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| - | <file>EtherBoot binary with AoE support</file> | ||
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| - | <file>Boot priority set to "EtherBoot" in the BIOS setup menu</file> | ||
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| - | <file>EtherBoot with AoE support will be used as boot device</file> | ||
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| - | <file>EtherBoot with AoE support provides in-depth hard disk environment and loads the Operating System from the harddisk from the AoE Server.</file> | ||
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| - | ====== AoE server applications for Linux/Unix ====== | ||
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| - | ====== AoE server applications for Windows/DOS ====== | ||
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| - | ...article will be continued | ||
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| - | ====== AoE state of development in EtherBoot ====== | ||
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| - | zpxe files have been handed out to demonstrate successful AoE boot. | ||
| - | [[http://etherboot.org/aoedemo/rtl8139.pxe|A RTL8139.zpxe demo file]] has been published by Michael Brown. A [[http://etherboot.org/aoedemo/aoedemo.img.gz|prebuilt Fedora 5 hard disk image]] can also be downloaded. | ||
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| - | To get you started, retrieve those files (you will need a RTL8139 card in the client). Setup DHCP reasonably (so the .zpxe file will be loaded). Download [[http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/aoetools/vblade-10.tar.gz?download|the virtual hard drive blade server]] (or use a real AoE capable drive, of course). | ||
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| - | Running<file>vbladed 0 0 eth0 aoedemo.img</file> you should be able to boot the client into Fedora. | ||
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| - | This is proof-of-concept only, and the code is only in developer codetree yet. | ||
