On Wed, 2005-01-26 at 15:04, Dan Stromberg wrote:
> FWIW:
> 
> PXE remote boot client support is a required by PC98 and PC99 for all
> Office
> PCs (<http://www.pcdesguide.com/pc99>) and by the Wired for Management
> Initiative sponsored by Intel Corp. (<http://developer.intel.com/ial/wfm>)
> As a result, most PC OEMs offer PXE support for LAN on motherboard platforms
> and for business platforms containing a PXE enabled NIC.
> 
> In addition, to upgrade existing PC platforms, PXE compliant NICs are offered
> by Intel (<http://www.intel.com/network/products/pro100mgmt.htm>) 
> and 3Com (<http://www.3comnicfinder.com/Product.asp?ProductID=49>), and
> possibly other NIC vendors.
> 
> Finally, many NICs with boot ROM sockets or flash chips can be upgraded to 
> PXE 
> compliance.  PXE compliant boot ROMs are available from  
>      -  Bootix Inc (<http://www.bootix.com>),  
>      -  3Com/Lanworks (<http://www.3com.com/products/dsheets/400350.html>), 
> and
>      -  Elisa Research. (<http://www.elisaresearch.com/>).
> 
> Purloined from http://www.polarhome.com:793/manual/pxe-0.1/

I would add http://www.etherboot.org and http://www.rom-o-matic.net (for
precompiled roms and disk images).  Etherboot supports most common cards
and a lot of rare (and otherwise unsupported cards).  The 5.3.x version
added support for PXE to the various other supported images.

Tim



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