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Bug#140579: Report: tftpboot install successfull



Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> writes:

> On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 08:36:11PM -0600, Adam DiCarlo wrote:
> >Um, no, I'm just talking about netboot options on i386.
> 
> I understand that. But just like we have a bunch of architectures, we
> have a bunch of netboot options. You generally don't have a lot of
> choices about what your hardware supports. Telling someone whose card
> doesn't support pxe to use pxe because it's better is no more sensible
> than telling an m68k user to use the i386 boot floppies because i386 is
> better.

True enough.

So why does that prevent us from giving an overview of the various
options and providing some criteria to help users pick one or the
other?  It may be true that generally "better" or "worse" doesn't
matter -- just anything that works will do.

-- 
...Adam Di Carlo..<adam@onshore-devel.com>...<URL:http://www.onshored.com/>




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