If someone may be looking for an PXE boot server for ending up with getting "full function linux clients" booted via the network without additional installation he may be interested having a "short look" onto the "Rapid Mappit Resumator" appliance inside the virtual appliances directory as well.

Cool appliance! I was working on doing this, but never got enough time. Now I can focus on adding a network based VMware deployment server!

I had one question for you: Where did you get info on editing .msg files. I see Syslinux has info on codes, but I'm not sure what to use to edit them. Any help is appreciated.

Great job on a nice appliance!

Dave

btw- Can't believe that shameless self promotion!!!

Hi, was wondering if anybody can give a small tutorial on how to use RIP.
I PXE booted my Fujitsu laptop (which contains Win XP SP2) and selected the RIP option. My laptop continued to boot until it reached "ns83820.c: National Semiconductor DP83820 10/100/1000 driver" then it just stops. Now what? I've been reading the docs from RIPLINUX site but can't find any doc on basic usage.

Thanks in advance.

I just download the PXE Installer and Recovery Appliance . I fired up the VM and start testing . Vmware client boot up .....and startup screen shows up. All nice and easy up to this point.First one i try memetest and its working fine .Next was free dos .At this point start the problems . When i try to install free dos on client it start complaining that source disk is missing . Same problem was at centos install. Centos offer me a few way's (http,ftp and so on) to locate install source but.... no one works out . Rip option work out fine (i see there midnight comander and partition image utilities ) but i need MC and partimaged on server side too . Its useless to me if i can start partimage only on client side when i need to backup/restore a client. I download the RHEL 4 ES iso image and try to add to server ....and after 2 hour of work i cant make it work . So i have a few questions here :

1.How to install mc and partimaged to server ?

2.How to solve the "missing instalation source " problem?

3.How to add a new image to server ?

Thanks

"To reply to this message, either reply to this email (recommended)" doesn't seem to work anymore.. sigh..

Anyway, this VM is elderly, has not been updated since it was written, nor will not be in the future, but at least it will be a good primer for setting up a featureful PXE server

If you can't use a bittorrent client, feel free to pull it from here (1.55GB):

http://www.pbandjelly.net/vmware_challenge/PXE_Installer-Recovery_1.0.tar.bz2

Kind Regards,
Michael

Is there any documentation on adding network drivers to this VM? I have been using this appliance for some time now and haven't had any issues, but we've recently started to deploy some newer laptops that use the R61 driver set, which isn't found within the base VM. Any guidance on this matter would be helpful.

Thanks!