Robert Haeckl wrote:
>
> Etherboot provides a means to boot from a network on a PC. The driver
> can be put on a floppy and then set your bios to boot from a floppy, or
> if your bios can be set to boot directly from the nic you can burn the
> image or program the image onto the network eeprom. I have done this
> with three network cards and loaded Linux. The etherboot site says that
> this can be done with Linux, FreeBSD, and DOS, but it says it sees no
> reason that it couldn't be done with an arbitrary OS because the
> protocol and boot file formats are general (I'm quoting.)
>
> http://etherboot.sourceforge.net/
>
> List of network cards that have drivers:
> http://etherboot.sourceforge.net/doc/html/userman-2.html#ss2.1
I may be wrong, but I'm pretty sure this is the project that later
developed into (or at least contributed to) the more generic "PXE Boot"
system that card manufacturers are now using.
And they say free software projects can't innovate....
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