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 -- Josef Karthauser ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.josef-k.net/ FreeBSD (cvs meister, admin and hacker) http://www.uk.FreeBSD.org/ Physics Particle Theory (student) http://www.pact.cpes.sussex.ac.uk/ ================ An eclectic mix of fact and theory. =================
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