Thanks. I'd missed that.
> > Now I'm not so familiar with that etherboot stuff, intel's whatsis
> > specification (PXE?) for sucking a bootable image through the network.
> > All I've ever seen that boot is a floppy image, but I don't know if
> > that's a limitation in the spec or just the way people are using it...
>
> That's just the way *some* people are using it. Look at PXELINUX for
> something that doesn't. PXELINUX can use the UDP API provided by the
> PXE specification to download arbitrary files, specified at runtime, via
> TFTP.
That one I suspected. (I used the TFTP setup on solaris and power PC years
ago, just didn't know if x86 bioses had caught up. Most of my BIOS
experience in the past few years has been with Dell machines, so my
expectations may have been unnecessarily lowered... :) On the other hand,
very few systems in the field seem to boot and install entirely through the
network unless they're meant to be diskless...
> -hpa
Rob
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