PXE boot from LAN

[brian873]

Over the weekend I was trying to find out a bit more about booting a pc from a LAN using the NIC. After some searching I have came up against a brick wall. The concept seems pretty easy although the software for it alludes me !

Does anyone know of any tools that I can use to try this out ?

[Martin Zugec]

RIS from Microsoft...

[brian873]

Can this be run on a XP machine ?

[Martin Zugec]

Nope, on server... PXE on workstation other than Linux is quite problem

[Stuntgp2000]

RIS is available only on Windows Server 2000 & 2003, it does not exist on Windows XP.

if you want to do a PXE Boot I suggest you use Argon Server, it can be installed on Windows XP & does not have some limitations of RIS, such as boot using RPL protocol.

[brian873]

I was hoping I could use some 3rd party utility to do this.

I might look at doing it from liux.

thanks soulin

[brian873]

thanks Stuntgp2000

will take a look