HP 733/800/866MHz 1GHz, Administrator'S Manual

Page: 83 / 118

English 83
5 Configuring for Remote Boot
Setting Up a Novell NetWare 3.x and 4.x Server for Remote Start
Setting Up a Novell NetWare 3.x and 4.x Server for Remote
Start
CAUTION Make sure your computer supports this protocol.
To remote boot a client PC, remote boot services must be installed on a Novell
NetWare server and a Boot Image must be created and installed on the server.
A Boot Image is a file on the server that appears to a client PC as a “bootable disk”.
A “bootable disk” is a disk containing the operating system and other related files.
A Boot Image can be used to remotely start any client PC; that is, any PC connected
to the network that does not act as the server.
The creation of a remote boot image disk is described in detail in the “Preparing the
Network for Use” chapter of the
Novell NetWare Getting Started: Supervisors
Guide
.
This section summarizes this procedure.
How to Create a Boot Image
You will need at least one PC with a flexible disk drive to generate a Boot Image for
the server to replicate. This PC is referred to as the Administrator Workstation.
All the details you need to generate the Boot Image can be found in the DOSGEN
section of your
Novell NetWare
manual. The following explanation is a summary of
the process.
1 Make a bootable diskette on any PC. To do this, insert a blank diskette in drive A
and type:
FORMAT A: /S