load sdi from floppy ?

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eyal inbar

Hi Slobodan,

Do you know where can I find information about the app that you talked about
?

Best Regards,
Eyal Inbar.
 
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I have a network card without pxe so I can't boot from network
Can I create floppy disk with network support and load my SDI image from network

10x
 
I hope that you understand that you must have at least one device with HDD
so you can run FBA.
If you do understand this, then.

Without BIOS or driver support you can't use network boot. If this is
something you will need in high volumes then you should change your BIOS.
If you need it for testing then forget all of this or be prepared for very
low level programming.

Also check for potential solutions.
http://www.vci.com/

Regards,
Slobodan

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eyal inbar said:
How can I do this ?

I have computer without H.D and without PXE support.
I created floppy with dos and tcp/ip support.
My sdi image locate in \\server\sharename\image.sdi and Im looking for way
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to load this sdi image from dos....
My alternative option is to create floppy with XP boot sector and boot.ini
Boot.ini seem like that:

[boot loader]
timeout=5
default=ramdisk(0)\windows

[operating systems]
ramdisk(0)\windows = "Windows XP Embedded" /fastdetect
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/rdpath=net(0)\image.sdi /rdimageoffset=4096
 
Hi Slobodan

Thanks for your answers but I think that I didn't explain my questions correcly
I don't search for way to boot my pc via network
I created SDI image which include XPE (I already run FBA
In some computers in my organization, I boot to XPE using Remote Boot Manager but I als
have computers without PXE support or HD and Im searching for ways to boot them into XPE

I copy my SDI image to some share on my netowrk
After that, I created a floppy with dos and netowrk support (to be able access my network share which include SDI
But I don't find way to load my sdi image to ram drive and boot it from dos

My second question is
I created floppy with XP boot sector (and ntldr,boot.ini
How can I tell boot.ini to search my SDI image in the netowrk
I tried to include "/rdpath=net(0)\image.sdi" in boot.ini but then I get error message (boot.ini can find the SDI

Best Regards
Eyal Inbar.
 
Hi Eyal,
My second question is:
I created floppy with XP boot sector (and ntldr,boot.ini)
How can I tell boot.ini to search my SDI image in the netowrk ?
I tried to include "/rdpath=net(0)\image.sdi" in boot.ini but then I get
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error message (boot.ini can find the SDI)

AFAIK this will not work.you need support from BIOS for this to work.

You can use dos with net support make app that will load SDI image to
memory, and then execute boot from RAM.

Regards,
Slobodan

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Eyal Inbar said:
Hi Slobodan,

Thanks for your answers but I think that I didn't explain my questions correcly.
I don't search for way to boot my pc via network.
I created SDI image which include XPE (I already run FBA)
In some computers in my organization, I boot to XPE using Remote Boot Manager but I also
have computers without PXE support or HD and Im searching for ways to boot them into XPE.

I copy my SDI image to some share on my netowrk.
After that, I created a floppy with dos and netowrk support (to be able
Click to expand...
access my network share which include SDI)
But I don't find way to load my sdi image to ram drive and boot it from dos.


My second question is:
I created floppy with XP boot sector (and ntldr,boot.ini)
How can I tell boot.ini to search my SDI image in the netowrk ?
I tried to include "/rdpath=net(0)\image.sdi" in boot.ini but then I get
Click to expand...
error message (boot.ini can find the SDI)
 
You must write it from info provided by MS or find someone to do it for you.
I have given you the link in my first reply.

Or maybe there are some solutions for this already, but I have not seen it.

Regards,
Slobodan

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Eyal,

There is a bunch of PXE boot floppy solutions out there (a client-based
firmware that allows you to boot an image from a server - XPe on floppy
DOS). E.g., http://www.argontechnology.com/mbadisk/.
Or search google for more.

As PXE is a stardard protocol, it should work to RAM-boot an XPe image from
RBS.

KM
 
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