[ale] Linux + Diskless boot + Wireless?

[F. Grant Robertson]

If you could get the right ROM, the rest is rahter straight forward. Look up
PXE boot, and linux. I've got a laptop that is able to do exactly this,
however it is connected by wires. At the very worst (if you cannot get PXE
and a wireless card in the same package), you should be able to bootstrap it
with a floppy, and do near the same thing.

DHCP knows it by MAC, passes it PXEboot witch then in turn grabs a kernel
and initrd from the TFTP server.


-G

-----Original Message-----
From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org]On Behalf Of Jeff
Layton
Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2003 8:51 AM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [ale] Linux + Diskless boot + Wireless?


Christopher Fowler wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 08:35:54AM -0400, Robert L. Harris wrote:
> >
> >
> > A friend of mine hit me with an odd proposal.  He wants to take an old
> > laptop and boot it diskless (PXE) over a wireless connection.  Has
> > anyone does such a thing or even know if laptop/802.11b hardware is
> > likely to work in this kind of setup at all?
>
> Etherboot might be your only option.
>

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