PXE-booting / Etherbooting DamnSmallLinux
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This folder contains a slightly modified version of DamnSmallLinux that is
able to be PXE booted without loads of customizations. Since DSL is small, I
just packed it on the initrd (which now is 50MB). Thus my version just
requires a DHCP and a TFTP server. An NFS server is no longer necessary.
Further modifications to the initrd are also not necessary. To PXE boot DSL,
do the following:

Prepare a boot server (Linux, BSD, Unix)
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1. Install and configure a DHCP server. You find a sample in this folder.
Please adjust nameserver gateway and other parameters according to your
network. "next-server" is the IP of the server providing the TFTP service.
Make sure to restart the DHCP daemon afterwards.

2. Install and run a TFTP daemon. This is usually done from within (x)inetd.
Unpack the file dsl-X.X-tftpboot.tar.gz to the TFTP-root-folder (usually
"/tftpboot".

3. Take a look at the configuration file $TFTPROOT/pxelinux.cfg/default.
Usually it does not need to be adjusted. You may want to load a certain
keymap.

Prepare a boot server (Windows)
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1. Create a directory C:\tftpboot

2. Unpack the contents of  dsl-X.X-tftpboot.zip to the folder C:\tftpboot

3. Download TFTPD32 from http://tftpd32.jounin.net/ and unpack the ZIP file
to the folder C:\tftpboot.

4. Run the TFTPD by double clicking "tftpd32".

5. Adjust the inclluded DHCP server according to your network settings (just
take a look in the output of the command "ipconfig /all"). Do not forget to
set the boot file to "pxelinux.0". Save the configuration.

Screenshot of configuration:
http://cdprojekte.schlenker-webdesign.de:8080/Public/DSL-frominitrd/1.5-0.0/misc/tftpdconfig.png

Prepare the client
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1. Configure the BIOS Setup to try network booting first.

2. Have fun!

Regards,
Mattias