Little tutorial for booting pebuilder.iso via network.

     I read the posts on the forum (THX the authors), I made some test and here are my results

     I use the tftpd32 from Jounin site. If you don't have it, you can download from here. Tested on WinXP Sp2, Win2k Sp4 server and Win2k3 Sp1 server, as host.

     I use the folder  C :\tftpboot\  as the root for the tftpd32. My root folder is shown below :

      where :  Ntdetect.com is the file copied from the I386 folder of the Win2k3sp1,

                  ntldr : extract the file Setupldr.exe from the file Setupldr.ex_ ( I386 folder ) and

                            rename it to ntldr

                  pebuilder.iso  is the buid ISO from Pebuilder 3.1.2  and  win2k3sp1.                             

                  startrom.n12   is the file extracted from startrom.n1_  .

                  tftpd32.exe   is the main program from Jouin site

                  winnt.sif  is a text file and you can see it bellow :

and here is the text :

     The settings for tftpd32 are shown bellow :

       Remember to put your own IP of the network card in the red colored areas. 

      Remember that the size of  RAM  must be greater as the size of  pebuilder.iso , otherwise  you'll  have the error saying that the file  pebuilder.iso is too big  to load in RAM . In the forum I read that the RAM must be  ISO size + 64M.

      Note : the tftpd32 complains about the missing file BOOTFONT.BIN but it is ignored and all goes further.

      And that's it. Please excuse my English, I'm not a native English speaker.

      For further info you can send me an e-mail to : valexvo@lycos.com 

      The big challenge is to find a way to boot via network in a way like KNOPPIX does . In short : to find a way to boot a computer from the pebuilder CdRom and to network boot the other(s) computers. Don't know if it's possible , I'm not a specialist.