Installing Linux through PXE

[absconditus absconditus]

Correction: I have **stopped* *both the firewall and the antivirus.

On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 7:23 PM, absconditus absconditus <
absconditus87 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> I am trying to install ubuntu on an old laptop through PXE (tftp32)
> installed on a Windows 7 machine. I have followed the instructions on
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/WindowsServerNetboot - and
> the old machine boots through PXE but then returns "No boot filename
> received" and finally exists PXE mode. I have both the firewall and the
> antivirus. I have downloaded the netboot.tar.gz from
> http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/quantal/main/installer-i386/current/images/netboot/netboot.tar.gz, extracted it and put its contents in a folder called netboot, which I
> then copied to a folder called 'tftp' that contains tftp32.exe. Any help
> would be appreciated.
>
> Many thanks,
> Daniel.
>
>
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