begin Tuesday 17 February 2004 19:07, Donald Teed quote: Emhh, just don't specify one? I.e. put the vendor-encapsulated-options and filename options directly on the root of your dhcpd.conf (i.e. not in a host { } section). I suppose by "menu file" you mean the "preconfiguration" file that supplies the answers to the menu? (udpcfg.txt)? For Etherboot, this needs to be integrated into the image (can be done easily using cast-o-matic: http://udpcast.linux.lu/cast-o-matic). The "stage 2" screen in cast-o-matic allows you to pre-configure the answers to the menu questions For PXE, a limited number of items may be supplied on the kernel command line (stored in the isolinux.cfg/default file on the tftp server). For more items, you need to put the udpcfg file into initrd (can be done using cast-o-matic as well. Alternatively, you can run makeImage locally, and use the options described in http://udpcast.linux.lu/mkimagedoc.html Of interest is the -C option, which allows you to supply an udpcfg.txt file to be included into the image. Yes. And in general they are. The sender is typically one of your Windows machines that you want to clone, whereas the DHCP/TFTP server is your Linux server. Btw, you can even put DHCP and TFTP on different machines from each other. In that case, you use the next-server setting in your DHCP config to point to your TFTP server. Regards, Alain