Situation: I have an old rack server that I want to use as a test machine. The BIOS does not support network boot, and cannot be upgraded. I need to install a fresh OS on it.
Is there anything I can install (or better, a live CD I can boot from), that would enable me to perform a once-only PXE-boot to load one of our standard OS images on the server?
Note: This question does NOT ask how to set up a PXE-boot server. That's already done, and works fine for any machine whose BIOS supports boot from network. All I'm looking for is a way of achieving the same thing without requiring BIOS support.
Best Answer
There is this thing called gpxe (read about it here), which allows you to load the PXE stuff from a floppy, for example.