At 14:54 5/06/2002, Richard Hayes sent this up the stick: >Has oneone used the bios of a pc to boot using GRUB / PXE or anything else >without having a bootprom in the network card? > >I want to have a 'bog standand' pc without any disk and to be able to boot >from the server. > >There is a program called something like 'system image' but I can not find >it. >Any clues / pointers would be helpful
If the PC BIOS doesn't support netbooting (ie: built-in network port) then you need either: - The network card to have a bootprom on it OR - a floppy drive with a boot image to load into memory, so the system can start sucking down an OS There was a webpage (http://rom-o-matic.net/ ) that built a boot-image via some dropdown menus. Check the pages at www.etherboot.org , http://netboot.sourceforge.net/ and http://www.thinguin.org/ Cheers, Rob -- I wish you humans would leave me alone. [15200.8 km (8207.8 mi), 262.8 deg](Apparent) Rennerian This is random quote 585 of a collection of 1232 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
