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Defcon31

hello

whith the xpe cd they offer also a remote boot program, which interests me a
lot.
however, after trying it out, it wont work.

i have tried it out with some free DHCP servers,
but in none of those programs i could find to set the option 61(not sure
about the exact number), needed to let remote boot work.

is it possible i will never be able to make use of Remote Boot without a
windows SERVER Operating System?

or are there other ways to make it work on my XP PRO OS ?

tanks in advance
 
Defcon31,

I think you won't be able to use Remote Boot on XP Pro without running DHCP
Server (on the same or separate machine). Also, it seems there is no MS DHCP
server installation for XP Pro. I have had DHCP Server on 2YK Server when I
played with the Remote Boot feature.

However, I guess any PXE environment may be used along with the XPe Remote
Boot Manager. I recall seeing some freeware PXE servers (including DHCP and
TFTP servers, of course) on Internet.
Personally, I prefer TFTPD32 server from http://tftpd32.jounin.net. It
includes BOOTP/DHCP server support. A while ago I was using it to remote
network boot a 3Com DOS image onto my workstation. You may give it a try
with an XPe image (just make sure you set up working directory and boot file
settings). Also, be careful when launch the DHCP server if you connect to a
local network that has other DHCP servers running. You may cause severe
troubles on the LAN.

Good luck,
KM
 
greetings,

using the remote boot manager documentation, i was able to do a pxe
boot to my target both with dhcp server on another machine from remote
boot manager, viz. running windows server 2003 (eval), and with a dhcp
server and remote boot manager on my laptop running xp pro. in the
latter case i, of course, deselected the "use dhcp 67" option. i used
dhcp turbo from www.weird-solutions.com and it was simple to set the
option 60 to "pxeclient" for my server scope.

i really like this remote boot capablity, and am looking forward to
increased lan bandwidth to make the boot up a snap. running from ram
definitely has its speed pluses. i'm looking at producing a strictly
administrator's image with a lot of mmc and wmi to troubleshoot
hardware without the application. different xpe images that download
and boot up in less than a second will be way cool!

this pxe boot seems to me the wave of the future. with a GB of memory
so cheap these days.
 
before, with other tools i always got the error
message: "no files received" from pxe.

but now i'm a step further with the tftpd32 program.
it seems the file (sdi image) can be transmitted now, but
now i get the error "PXE-E079: NBP is too big to fit in
free base memory"..

what can i do now?

thanks in advance
 
oops!

about your E079 error, are you using startrom.n12 as you bootstrap - look in RBM!

but your xpe image must still fit in about half your ram.

good luck!
 
no i dont use remote boot manager and startrom.n12;
just the tftpd32 tool that KM advised me and with this tool i could select a
file to send.

everything worked fine (could give device IP adres) and since it says
"file is too big", i suppose the transmittion of the file would be no
problem.

just the error E079 "file too big" is now my problem..
my image is 200MB and my RAM on target device is 256MB
in fact, i think you may be right and i can image it that i need more ram
for it.

but don't think at this moment i want to spend again more money for more
RAM.

anyway thanks for help
 
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