On 23 Jun 2014, at 10:03, Jason White <[email protected]> wrote: > Sabahattin Gucukoglu <[email protected]> wrote: >> Fair enough, but a baseline Mac is booting from an external machine from >> code in the firmware. That's pretty special. > > that's exactly what PXE does, which is why I mentioned it. On most laptops, > however, it's turned off by default, and you have to configure a DHCP server > on your local network to supply the address of the machine from which to > download the operating system.
An external machine to your network, with no configuration. Of course, if you have a netboot server you can boot your machine from that (I would argue that this, too, is easier on a Mac--just hold down the N key at boot). My point is that a Mac is pretty much indestructible from the point of view of the user trying to bootstrap an installation when they have nothing except TCP/IPv4 over Ethernet (DHCP server still required). I think that's pretty damn awesome, but if you run Linux and know all about netboot and PXE, you probably already have triple-redundant media servers in your network. :) Cheers, Sabahattin -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
