Hello, Is it possible to achieve the same effect of PXE boot (i.e. pull everything over the net, at most use a file on the local FAT32 disk for swap) using some DOS/Win98 software?
My motivation - we have an ancient Toshiba Sattelite 4030CDT that can boot Ubuntu live from its CD-ROM but it's slow, my wife won't let me install Linux over her Win98, and on top of this the CD-ROM is slow and noisy. There is no space on the disk to install Linux besides Windows (4 or 6 Gb HD). So I though it would be great if I could just run something a-la "loadlin" from inside a Win98 command-window that will pull down the kernel and initramfs from my Debian Etch desktop and bootstrap from that, using NFS root mount from the Debian disk. Once I have this I suppose it should be easy to setup some XFCE or KDE-based environment to accomodate for the modest CPU and RAM. Does such a thing exist? Thanks, --Amos
