[gPXE] Booting FreeDOS - beginner question

[Quinn Plattel]

Don't give up. :-)  It took me a long time too to understand iscsi but it
is great once you have a working setup.

br,
Quinn

On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 2:18 PM, Ruzsinszky Attila <
ruzsinszky.attila at gmail.com> wrote:

> > It is real eays to boot Linux from iSCSI. Ubuntu is able to recognize
> that
> > you want to install it on a iSCSI-volume at the installation-process and
> > will adapt the boot-parameter to boot from.
> OK.
>
> My goal is a working boot server with many different OSes, like
> - some Linux distros
> - some rescueCD-s (systemrescuecd, etc.)
> - DOSes (M$ and Free)
> - Win (XP, W7)
> - maybe OS/2, FreeBSD.
>
> > I recommend at least to use Ubuntu 11.04, but 11.10 should also be no
> > problem.
> I like Ubuntu 10.04.3 LTS. I hate Unity because I don't know how can I use
> it.
>
> I'd like to know whether I can setup FreeDOS boot system using only Linux
> utilities (dd, fdisk, mkfs.msdos, makebootfat, etc.) I hope it is possible.
> If my image is correct checking with fdisk, no boot at all (from qemu).
> If I use makebootfat, fdisk complains but qemu is able to boot from it. If
> qemu is able to boot directly from my image not booting from the iSCSI.
> What is the difference? I don't understand. I'm confused.
>
> For boot server, almost everything is ready: DHCP+TFTP+WEB+Samba+
> iSCSI server. What is missing a bootable image what I can put on iSCSI
> server.
>
> Mybe I don't understand many things, like exact booting from PXE, CD,
> HDD, floppy. It is very complex for me. I know just very few things about
> them.
>
> TIA,
> Ruzsi
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Best regards/Med venlig hilsen,
Quinn Plattel
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