I fear I have to correct you on that though. You're mistaken with the
"wake-on-lan" function.
The "boot from lan" option is used to boot a diskless client over a LAN. Instead
of booting off its own harddrive, it will boot off a harddrive of another
machine connected to the LAN. It requires you to place a boot-ROM on the NIC.
I don't know the precise details on this, since I've never used this function,
and I don't know anyone else that has.
Check the manual of your NIC for more details.
Anyway, the machine just sitting there waiting for something is very normal
behaviour. There's no machine connected on the LAN that acts as a boot-server,
and probably your NIC doesn't even have a boot-rom (they usually don't come
included).
Anyway, I don't know a whole heck of this, so there might be some slight
misinformation in this reply, but the basic idea is there though. ;-)
On Feb 18 rharvey wrote:
> jeff,
> at work we have compaq's they have a little wire that we plug from the nic
> to the main board. with the option you are taking about turned on. we can
> turn on and boot up a pc remotely.
>
> robert
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: jeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Friday, February 18, 2000 5:01 PM
> Subject: [newbie] Question never answered.
>
>
> >
> > As I have been playing around, getting to know linux. I have discovered
> > allot of neat things.
> >
> > But as I have been playing I have discovered in my bios that I can set
> > it to boot from the LAN.
> >
> > What I am wondering is, what do I have to do on the LAN in order to do
> > this?
> > I have tried it and the system just sits there waiting on something.
> >
> > Does anyone here have any experience with doing this ?
> >
> > Jeff
> >
> >
> >
>
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