NASLite Network Attached Storage

Booting from a diskette is OK but quite often a machine has a cd-rom drive as well.
Can the NASLite server software - after having been configured properly and saved on the diskette - be moved from a diskette to a bootable cd-rom?
I'm aware that the cd-rom drive will grap one of the four possible IDE channels but quite often no more than one or two harddisk drives is needed.

/gustav

There may be some help on this topic here:

http://www.nu2.nu/bootcd

...although that page is mostly about DOS/Windows CDs. It may clarify something about where boot information would have to be on the CD or something.

In the "standard" actual form it cannot be done, as the "El-Torito" specification (related to how a Cd can be bootable) only allows floppy images either 1.44 or 2.88 Mb so that the 1.722 Naslite image is not bootable from CD.
There are however some extensions, like one that Nero has, that allows booting from CD "Hard Disk" images, but I have not tried them.

I'll try to see the "NEW" NASLITE CD, maybe it can be done starting from there.

jaclaz

But with 2.88 MB you can do more than 1.72 MB, that's MHO.

Yes, but as naslite is distributed as a 1.722 floppy image you CANNOT CONVERT it to a 2.88 Mb, as when booting naslite searches for determinates SECTORS.

jaclaz