Increase amount of free ram on network boot disk

[max5]

Hi again!

I want to use Bart's network boot disk (

http://www.nu2.nu/)

in order to install windows 98 over the network. Unfortunately the network drivers need so much ram that windows setup is unable to start. Do you have any suggestions how to extend the amount of free memory?

Thanks in advance!

Max

 

[wolluf]

you mean high level (first 640kb) memory?

are you just trying this as an exercise? One machine - many? you could just copy the install files to the hard drive over the network - then install from there, but I suspect that defeats the object of what you are trying to do.

Have you tried other network boot disks?

 

[max5]

Hi Wolluf!

I want to install win98 on many machines. I am doing this for my school. Since we are setting up a new linux server we need to create new images for different machines. We have a sort-of bootloader (a commercial version of rembo) that allows us to boot the machines using pxe and to migrate the machines into the new network. After the migration it automatically creates partitions on the workstation according to a config file on the server. It is also able to create images of the workstations that are saved on the server and to act as a bootloader for different operating systems (either local systems or remote booting systems on the server).

Anyway my gain was to create a bootable floopy that can handle different network cards in order to start the win98 installation on machines with different hardware. I wanted to put an image of this disk on the server in order to be able to boot it via pxe using the bootloader I have described above. I hope my description is not too confusing. Do you know other "universal" network boot disks I could give a try or any other way to solve the problem?

Best regards,

Max

 

[wolluf]

As a starter -

http://www.bootdisk.com/

has 3 other network bootdisk sites, besides the one you already have. Thinking about it - don't you really need individual disks for each machine - with just the driver for their network card loaded (which would free up all the memory used by the other drivers, which make these disks 'universal'?)