forcing a netboot on machines that don't support netboot.

[Rohit Kumar Mehta]

Hoorray, I have found the answer to this question.  Apparently the 
newest gPXE build provides a universal boot CD iso or bootable USB key 
image.  I figure a lot of people might be interested in this, so here 
are the files:

http://www.engr.uconn.edu/~rohitm/etherboot.usb
http://www.engr.uconn.edu/~rohitm/etherboot.iso

Rohit

Rohit Kumar Mehta wrote:
> Hi my kickstarts seem to work very well with netboot, or the mini cd 
> which does a netinstall with netboot-options
> 
> http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/feisty/main/installer-i386/current/images/netboot/mini.iso
> 
> Does anyone know of a netboot.iso (as opposed to mini.iso netinstall 
> with netboot options) which supports all the ethernet cards that ubuntu 
> supports?  I looked at Etherboot/rom-omatic, and while it will generate 
> an iso for a specific network card, it would be nice to have a CD hand 
> which will do a netboot on any hardware.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Rohit
>