[ale] PXE Boot from CD?

[David Tomaschik]

That's possible, I just need to find a CF to laptop HD adapter.  Would 
anyone know if Fry's or somewhere else has them locally?  (Though even 
driving out there is not something I look forward to)

David

James P. Kinney III wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-07-10 at 16:27 -0400, David Tomaschik wrote:
>   
>> I have an old (P2, IIRC) notebook computer with a dud hard drive that's 
>> just been sitting around.  While it's not that critical, I thought it 
>> would be fun to get it working (at least somewhat).  My thoughts were to 
>> get it to PXE boot with NFS root off my home lan server (which has 
>> plenty of disk space).  Unfortunately, it has no integrated network, 
>> only a PCMCIA network card (obviously not directly bootable).  So I 
>> thought there might be a LiveCD of some sort available to allow PXE 
>> booting.  It seems fairly simple, but googling has found lots of people 
>> asking about it, but little in the way of direct answers.
>>     
>
> How about a CF card and hard drive adapter (since the HD is dead
> anyway)? Put the boot code on the card (or an entire OS - puppy linux is
> quite small!) and then you can run from the remote server.
>   
>> Thanks for your time!
>> David
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