Re: net booting

[Jeremie Koenig <sprite@sprite.fr.eu.org>]

On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 12:23:58AM +0100, Hans Ekbrand wrote:
> Since none of the older computers can read CD-RW discs, I am
> interested in trying to net boot (dhcp, tftp and nfs (or a large
> initrd)) them instead.
> 
> However, with the new installation system it is not obvious to me how
> to do it.
> 
> Is it, or will it be, supported?

The netboot image (and probably all the other ones) can be booted by
network. You can set up a tftp space somewhere on your network and use a
network-enabled grub boot disk (google for it, there's an floppy image
generator around).

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Jeremie Koenig <sprite@sprite.fr.eu.org>