Fujitsu Futro S100 - boot from Network using PXE

Well, I've almost got my head around the network boot business.

There is a standard for BIOS boot from network - called PXE (for Preboot eXecution Environment), and apparently aka "pixie", and originally created by Intel for 32bit systems.

It makes use of a protocol that combines and extends DHCP and TFTP

The device booting up gets itself an IP address (either static or from the DHCP server)


Some useful links:

Windows software to serve the DHCP extensions and TFTP the boot files
http://www.vercot.com/~serva/an/NonWindowsPXE3.html

A good tutorial:
http://osdev.berlios.de/netboot.html

The wikipedia page
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preboot_Execution_Environment

The PXE spec
http://quimby.gnus.org/internet-drafts/draft-henry-remote-boot-protocol-00.txt
and v2.1
ftp://download.intel.com/design/archives/wfm/downloads/pxespec.pdf

PXELINUX
http://www.syslinux.org/wiki/index.php/PXELINUX

An interesting thread, though I'm still digesting it:
http://reboot.pro/topic/2936-is-it-possible-to-boot-any-bootable-iso-file-off-the-network/

Articles about tinyCore:
http://sirlagz.net/2011/05/16/how-to-pxe-boot-tiny-core-linux/

and Puppy
http://minipc.org/pxe/1-netbooting-readme.txt
http://puppylinux.org/wikka/PXELINUX
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bkMJ-2wjAAC8HVZZTZBFxBELbojoGctLMg27KazqvRw/edit?hl=en&pli=1#
http://sirlagz.net/2011/06/13/how-to-boot-puppy-5-2-5-over-pxe/
and a thread
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=23615

Some ready-made netboot files (for Breeezy)
http://minipc.org/pxe/


Nitty-gritties of PXE
http://wiki.osdev.org/PXE#Files.2C_via_TFTP