TFTP PXE Server

[Simmy]

I've got a laptop here with no CD/floppy drive and non bootable usb ports. It's got an ethernet adapter with pxe support and I need to install windows 98 on it (yes it's that old).

I've setup TFTP correctly as far as I can tell, because the laptop gets assigned an ip address from the PXE server but refuses to load any further or give me any boot options. It times out with TFTP E32 which basically is a timeout error and can't find pxelinux.0. As far as I can tell, all of the files are in their correct folders and the tftp settings all point to the correct directories.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

[Simmy]

Nevermind - sorted it.

For future reference, I had to tick "PXE compatiblity" in the tftp server settings.

[arrow_runner]

For future reference, or if this is easier:

You can also hook it up to another Windows 98 computer (boot from hard disk, floppy, cd, shouldn't matter), do a *format C: /s /q and then just copy the entire cd to the hard drive, put the drive back in the laptop and it will boot to dos, then CD into the cd-contents directory and run setup from there.

*I believe the other command to do this w/o formatting was 'sys', but I forget when that command was last used in a windows OS.

[seedubya]

sys C:

copies the system files to the C: drive an makes it bootable.

[Simmy]

Cheers - I'll give that a try. I did try something similar yesterday but it didn't work. It booted off the hard drive in every other computer, but as soon as I put it into the original machine, it wouldn't boot. I've also just noticed the 20Gb hard drive appears as aa 236gb drive!