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Dear Sir,
I want to build diskless linux via ramdisk root filesystem. I have =
only floppy drive and NIC (not PXE support). I want to put only loader =
in floppy. The kernel and initrd is keeped at server. I want the loader =
to automatically select configuration file depends on IP address, like =
pxelinux. Would you please advise me?
Thanks,
Theewara
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Network boot. [ In reply to ]
> I want to build diskless linux via ramdisk root filesystem. I have
> only floppy drive and NIC (not PXE support). I want to put only loader
> in floppy. The kernel and initrd is keeped at server. I want the loader
> to automatically select configuration file depends on IP address, like
> pxelinux. Would you please advise me?

Pxelinux needs PXE.

You can get a floppy bootable Etherboot image from www.rom-o-matic.net,
if Etherboot supports the NIC.

ISC DHCP v3 server has conditional configuration which can fairly easily
allow configuration dependent on MAC address or anything else in the
DHCP request.