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><br>br,<br>Quinn<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 2:18 PM, Ruzsinszky Attila <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ruzsinszky.attila@gmail.com">ruzsinszky.attila@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">> It is real eays to boot Linux from iSCSI. Ubuntu is able to recognize that<br>
> you want to install it on a iSCSI-volume at the installation-process and<br>
> will adapt the boot-parameter to boot from.<br>
OK.<br>
<br>
My goal is a working boot server with many different OSes, like<br>
- some Linux distros<br>
- some rescueCD-s (systemrescuecd, etc.)<br>
- DOSes (M$ and Free)<br>
- Win (XP, W7)<br>
- maybe OS/2, FreeBSD.<br>
<br>
> I recommend at least to use Ubuntu 11.04, but 11.10 should also be no<br>
> problem.<br>
I like Ubuntu 10.04.3 LTS. I hate Unity because I don't know how can I use it.<br>
<br>
I'd like to know whether I can setup FreeDOS boot system using only Linux<br>
utilities (dd, fdisk, mkfs.msdos, makebootfat, etc.) I hope it is possible.<br>
If my image is correct checking with fdisk, no boot at all (from qemu).<br>
If I use makebootfat, fdisk complains but qemu is able to boot from it. If<br>
qemu is able to boot directly from my image not booting from the iSCSI.<br>
What is the difference? I don't understand. I'm confused.<br>
<br>
For boot server, almost everything is ready: DHCP+TFTP+WEB+Samba+<br>
iSCSI server. What is missing a bootable image what I can put on iSCSI<br>
server.<br>
<br>
Mybe I don't understand many things, like exact booting from PXE, CD,<br>
HDD, floppy. It is very complex for me. I know just very few things about them.<br>
<div><div></div><div class="h5"><br>
TIA,<br>
Ruzsi<br>
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</div></div></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Best regards/Med venlig hilsen,<br>Quinn Plattel<br>