GPXE Help

[pnlrogue1]

Hi guys.

 

Setup a FOG server a while ago but have some ancient RM machines which I want to use FOG on as well

 

I understand that I need to use something like GPXE/Etherboot as these machines don't support PXE but I am having a nightmare trying to get it to work and the GPXE documentation is written for someone who knows Linux better than me

 

I've downloaded the pre-build floppy .dsk

Copied it to the desktop

formatted my floppy with Windows (didn't know how to do it with Linux until 5 mins ago)

Figured out where in /dev the floopy lives (/dev/sdb)

cd Desktop

sudo dd if=gpxe.dsk of=/dev/sdb

 

Says it's successful so eject the disk and plug it in to a machine and all I get is "Loading ROM image...................." and then it just sits there

 

Also tried formatting it in Linux (Ubuntu 9.10) as FAT and as EXT3. FAT made no difference, EXT3 crashed needing another re-format!

 

When dd'ing, the result I get is:

521+0 records in
521+0 records out
266752 bytes (267 kB) copied 29.2208 s, 9.1 kB/s

 

Managed to get the CD version working on my test machine so not a problem with the machine but I don't want to have to carry a USB CD drive around with me when I can carry a plain old USB Floppy drive or Netac USB Key with floppy emulation!

 

Any ideas?

 

Thank you!

Edited January 13, 2010 by pnlrogue1
Added more info

[pnlrogue1]

Finally got it working - one site told me to dismount the floppy after finding out what it's /dev entry was. I decided to ignore this and try

dd if=gpxe.dsk of=/media/gpxe

which was, unsurprisingly, unsuccessful, but then I tried

dd if=gpxe.dsk of=/dev/sdb

and it worked!

 

Moral of this story: Just because one website says dismount the thing you're trying to write to, doesn't mean that they're right...