Booting a machine over the network without pxe.

[Josef Karthauser]

On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 09:54:18PM +0100, Josef Karthauser wrote:
> Does anyone have any experience of booting a machine over the
> network, like pxeboot, but without running PXE on a network card.
> I imagine that it should be possible to load pxeboot at the boot:
> prompt and have everything just work.
> 
> I could really do with booting my laptop into -stable, where it's only
> got -current installed.  I do however have a -stable server on site with
> plenty of disk space.  It would be really cool to remote boot of that
> via NFS mounts, etc.

I should have said, my network card is an aue (usb) device which cuts
etherboot out of the equation.

Joe
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