[ale] Linux + Diskless boot + Wireless?

[Jeff Layton]

F. Grant Robertson wrote:

> 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.
>

Don't you still need a ROM image for the floppy though?

> 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.
> >
>


-- 
Dr. Jeff Layton
Chart Monkey - Aerodynamics and CFD
Lockheed-Martin Aeronautical Company - Marietta