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Introduction
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Suppose there are hundreds of computers
need clone, if you boot up them one by one
with CD or U-Disk, you can imagine what a
large project for an enterprise. To configure
a non-disk 98DOS and clone from non-disk boot
will save a lot of time and lighten workload.
Here we will introduce how to configure a
non-disk 98DOS.
Main application environment:
All environments with PXE booted net card
PXE
Short for Pre-Boot Execution Environment
and pronounced pixie, PXE is one of the
components of Intel's WfM specification.
It allows a workstation to boot from a server
on a network prior to booting the operating
system on the local hard drive. A PXE-enabled
workstation connects its NIC to the LAN
via a jumper, which keeps the workstation
connected to the network even when the power
is off. Because a network administrator
does not have to physically visit the specific
workstation and manually boot it, operating
systems and other software, such as diagnostic
programs, can be loaded onto the device
from a server over the network.
PXE is a mandatory element of the WfM specification.
To be considered compliant, the PXE must
be supported by the computer's BIOS and
its NIC.
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Procedures:
1) Hardware: At least two computers (one act
as a server, another act as a workstation),
workstation should has a PEX boot net card,
an exchanger or a hub.
2) Software: Win 2000 Server,DHCP,Intel PXE-PDK.EXE,Disundi.1,WinImage
1. System installation
Firstly, install Win 2000 Server system
and driver on server end. And it requires
the format of system partition be NTFS format,
please run C: \winnt\system32\Convert C:/fs:ntfs
in advance if it is not NTFS forma to transfer
the partition to NTFS format. Install IPX
and TCP/IP agreement and manually configure
the IP address, subnet mask, gateway, etc.
on the server. Please see following drawing
for detailed configuration:
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2. The installation
and configuration of DHCP
1) Run “Start”, “Setting”,
“Control Panel”, “Add/Delete
Programs” and “Add/Delete Windows
Component” in turn.
2) Select “Network Service” and
click on “Detailed Information”
button to guarantee the “Dynamic Host
configuration Protocol (DHCP)” option
has been selected. Click “Next”,
and insert installation CD as required to
complete the installation of DHCP server
3) Run “Start”, “Program”,
“Management Tool” and “DHCP”
in turn after complete installation.
4) Right click the left frame of following
drawing, select “New Scope…”.
Open New Scope Wizard.
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5) Naming for Scope, suppose for 98DOS |
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6) Input 192.168.0.2 and 192.168.0.244 in
“Start IP Address” and “End
IP Address” dialog boxes under “IP
Address Range” interface. |
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7) If there are other computers used some
of IP addresses in the IP Address Range mentioned
above, you can exclude these IP addresses
in “Add Exclusions” interface. |
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8) Set corresponding lease duration according
to personal details. |
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9) Select “No, I will configure these
options later (o)” in “Configure
DHCP Options” interface. |
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By now DHCP server configuration has completed.
If you want to validate the configured DHCP
server, please select a computer with systems
installed, run Ipconfig /renew to see if computer
can get IP address automatically.
3. Install and configure
Intel PXE-PDK
During the installation, select “Install
Without NT4 Server CD” and not select
“Use the DHCP port(DHCP is installed
on another machine)”, others are according
to default options.
1) Run “Start”, “Program”,
“PXE-PDK” and “PXE PDK
Configuration Program” in turn, open
PXE Configuration interface.
2) Click “proxyDHCP Server”
in left list, see as following drawing.
Run “Configuration proxyDHCP Server…”
in “proxyDHCP Server” menu.
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3) Select “Client Options” label
in popup interface and tick the Multicast
discover. Change the Windows default of downmost
Remote Boot Prompt Timeout (in Seconds) from
10 to 0 (This is a startup menu option, Multicast
discover will skip the process of running
troublesome DB during startup; 0 will save
the menu waiting time and start by default
way). See as following drawing: |
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4) Click on “to BootServer Discovery
List” button, and there will appear
the following drawing. Change default of BootServer
from 10 to 3 (DOSUNDI). Input IP Address into
IP box: 192.168.0.1, and then click on “Add
to Discovery List” button, click OK
to complete settings. (Here is to choose the
type of BootServer. We take DOSUNDI for an
example, if you want to set multiple initiate
modes, you can add APTiEST without change
default 10.) |
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5) Return to PXE Configuration interface.
Select “proxy DHCP SERVER”->“client
Boot Menu”->“x86pc(UNDI)”,
right click “DOSUNDI1” in the
right window and select “move entry
up”. You will see “DOSUNDI”
has moved into the first item, click OK to
exit. |
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Here the whole PXE-PDK configuration has
completed. If you want to inspect whether
the PXE server configured take effect or not,
please go to Start?Setup?Control Panel?Management
Tool?Service, to see if there are Intel PEX
MTFTP Service and Intel PEX Service, and it
is in Auto-Boot state. If there aren’t,
there must be some problems during PXE-PDK
installation. Please manually boot if it doesn’t
automatically boot.
4. Make startup image
files
Make and edit a startup image with WinImage
software, name the image file as Dosundi.1
and copy it into C:\program Files\Intel\Pxe\Pdk\system\Images\x86pc\undi\DosUndi.
If you want to run multicast system directly
during startup, you should make the multicast
system program into image, or you should
run corresponding order execution under
DOS system.
 Download
(This links download
Intel PXE-PDK.exe software and non-disk
boot image)
5. AYGHOST Genie
1) Start up computer from non-disk, run
corresponding order to enter into multicast
systems.
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2) In order to operate multicast systems,
please select Start AYGHOST with network support. |
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3) The program will ask you to choose the
type of net card, and then click OK. AYGHOST
supports scores of common Internet cards.
If your net card is not in these net cards,
please add net card by using the program in
MAKE-NET directory. (Please see appendix for
detailed creating process) |
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4) The program will execute automatically
and enter into AYGHOST interface. Then you
can make some interrelated operations |
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5) Select multicast systems, and select
mother disk as the sender. Boot other computers
in the same way and select them as receivers.
Press Enter key at transmit end after all
receivers have been connected to clone the
whole hard disk. |
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