[ale] Linux + Diskless boot + Wireless?

Christopher Fowler cfowler at outpostsentinel.com
Tue Sep 23 10:15:35 EDT 2003


On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 09:16:26AM -0400, Jeff Layton wrote:
> 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?

Yep Etherboot can be the ROM image on floppy



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