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Re: network boot: CP/M-86, FreeDOS, GNU/Linux

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is that image Public Domain?

Op Sat, 18 Aug 2012 13:46:52 +0200 schreef Ivan Shmakov  
<oneingray@gmail.com>:

>>>>>> Ivan Shmakov <oneingray@gmail.com> writes:
>
> 	[Cross-posting to news:comp.os.linux.networking and
> 	news:comp.os.msdos.misc, for an example setup for booting the
> 	Debian GNU/Linux 6.0.4 Live and FreeDOS Balder images over a
> 	network is provided.  I'm looking for both a better-suited
> 	newsgroup, and a configuration to boot a ZX Spectrum emulator.]
>
>  > To note is that I've added the CP/M-86 1.44" image to my iPXE-based
>  > "Network boot" menu, too.  Now, virtually any x86 machine (or an
>  > "emulation" thereof) in my LAN, may boot a CP/M-86 system given a
>  > suitable iPXE command sequence or script.
>
> [...]
>
>  > PS.  I'm quite sure that this configuration will work over Internet,
>  > too, but I'm somewhat reluctant to share the server's URI to point
>  > iPXE at, as this version of CP/M-86 doesn't seem like a free software
>  > (as in "free speech".)
>
> 	... On a second though, here it is:
>
> http://ritic.am-1.org/diskless/ipxe/world-default
>
> 	One can run it with QEMU (or QEMU/KVM) like:
>
> $ qemu \
>       -kernel virtio-net.lkrn \
>       -net nic,model=virtio \
>       -net user,bootfile=http://173.0.50.100/diskless/ipxe/world-default
>
> 	It seems that the version of QEMU I use fails to provide DNS to
> 	the child, so I had to use "plain" IPv4 addresses within both
> 	the command line above and the "world-default" iPXE script, as
> 	well as providing a copy of balder10.img on my server (as
> 	http://ibiblio.org/ apparently requires the proper Host: HTTP
> 	header.)
>
> 	For booting "real" hardware, one'd need a DHCP server, and also
> 	a TFTP one (unless a recent version of iPXE is burned into the
> 	boot ROM.)
>
> 	E. g., the ISC DHCP server may be configured roughly as follows
> 	(assuming a static MAC to IPv4 mapping.)
>
> ### dhcpd.conf  -*- Default-Generic -*-
>
> default-lease-time   600;
> max-lease-time      7200;
>
> subnet 192.0.2.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
>   use-host-decl-names   on;
>   option  subnet-mask   255.255.255.0;
>   option  routers       192.0.2.1;
>   option  domain-name-servers
>                         192.0.2.53;
>   # option  ntp-servers   192.0.2.123;
>
>   if exists user-class and option user-class = "iPXE" {
>     filename             
> "http://173.0.50.100/diskless/ipxe/world-default";
>   } else {
>     ## download iPXE from a TFTP server
>     next-server         192.0.2.69;
>     filename            "undionly.kpxe";
>   }
>   host diskless.example.org {
>     hardware  ethernet  00:27:0e:05:e5:9e;
>     fixed-address       192.0.2.97;
>   }
> }
>
> ### dhcpd.conf ends here
>
> 	Also note that the Debian 6.0.4 Live "standard" image is some
> 	177 MiB in total, and thus takes a while to load from
> 	http://cdimage.debian.org/ (AKA http://130.239.18.163/.)  It's
> 	provided as an example only; one should really consider putting
> 	it somewhere within his or her own network!  (There's also a
> 	section for loading the "Xfce desktop" image, but its menu entry
> 	was commented-out, so not to abuse the cdimage server.)
>
> 	The files provided (below /bin/) are as follows.  (I'd like to
> 	thank Aioe for its wonderful "441 Lines longer than 79 chars".)
>
>     Image: 144cpm86.img
>     Copy-of: http://z80.eu/downloads/cpm86fl2.zip (floppy.flp)
>     Description: CP/M-86 1.44" bootable floppy
>      Originally from http://cpm.z80.de/download/144cpm86.zip.
>
>     Image: balder10.img
>     Copy-of:  
> http://ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/
>      unofficial/balder/balder10.img
>     Description: Balder 1.0 (FreeDOS) 1.44" bootable floppy
>
>     Image: memdisk.lkrn
>     Copy-of:  
> http://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian/20120630T153537Z/pool/
>      main/s/syslinux/syslinux-common_4.05%2Bdfsg-6_all.deb
>      (./usr/lib/syslinux/memdisk)
>     Description: MEMDISK implements a RAM disk by hooking INT 13h
>      This one comes from the SYSLINUX project.
>
>     Image: memtest86+.0
>     Source:  
> https://git.ipxe.org/people/mcb30/memtest.git/commit/f9d3679f3770
>     Description: Memtest86+ memory tester (PXE)
>      This version of Memtest86+ was built with an experimental PXE
>      support.
>
>     Image: memtest86.bin
>     Copy-of:  
> http://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian/20120514T041508Z/pool/
>      main/m/memtest86/memtest86_4.0s-1_amd64.deb (./boot/memtest86.bin)
>     Description: Memtest86 memory tester
>
>     Image: pxelinux.0
>     Copy-of:  
> http://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian/20120630T153537Z/pool/
>      main/s/syslinux/syslinux-common_4.05%2Bdfsg-6_all.deb
>      (./usr/lib/syslinux/pxelinux.0)
>     Description: PXELINfUX loads Linux from a network using PXE
>


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network boot: CP/M-86, FreeDOS, GNU/Linux Ivan Shmakov <oneingray@gmail.com> - 2012-08-18 18:46 +0700
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