Having just set this up over the last few days, thought I'd share with the list. Two things to make your life easier: 1. Windows 2003 RBFG New and enhanced since Windows 2000 Server, RBFG.exe (part of RIS) is a floppy-based PXE emulator. The nice thing about the Win2003 version is the extended network card support; nearly anything from Intel, 3com or Realtek will now work. This turns any PC that will boot from floppy into a PXE client. Don't break your license agreement! 2. ISC DHCP v3 "pool" support It's possible to classify hosts into "known" and "unknown" pools, depending whether the MAC address appears in a pools list of hosts. This allows PXE information to be customised and delivered only to those clients which need it. I don't know what version this appeared in, but I found it new in RHEL3, so I assume it's fairly recent. (3. Memdisk - not new but worth a mention) If you're doing PXE kickstarts and not playing with syslinux/memdisk's funky menus, try them today. Boot BIOS upgrade floppies, Hitachi's DFT, vendor's "system partitions" (Dell/HPaq) and Partition Magic over the network. Enjoy, Phil
