Re: install

[Eduardo M KALINOWSKI <eduardo@kalinowski.com.br>]

Stephen Powell wrote:
> Hmm.  I see what you mean.  The description of that file in the MANIFEST says,
> "tiny CD image that boots the netboot installer"
>
> This is an oxymoron to my way of thinking.  My definition of "netboot"
> means "booting from the network directly from the BIOS with no physical installation
> media whatsoever".  Obviously, if you're booting from a CD you're not booting
> from the network.  Q.E.D.
>   

Not all BIOSes have built-in network boot support, though. For those who
don't, but can boot a CD-ROM, you can boot this CD and it will then
continue to a network boot as would have been done in a computer whose
BIOS can do that automatically.


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Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
eduardo@kalinowski.com.br