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If you mean you want to be able to do this for a machine that doesn't support PXE in its BIOS, then it should be possible to PXE-boot from a cdrom, floppy, or usb thumb-drive. If you absolutely need to avoid PXE, it should still be possible to create bootable media for doing a network boot using tftp, dhcp, etc. I would imagine a PXE-boot CD would be simpler, though. Jeffrey Finkelstein wrote: > I have been charged with the task of determining whether it is > possible to boot from a network location without using PXE, and I > would like to know if anyone else has any information on the subject. > > Essentially the task is this: Given a Mandriva boot.iso CD-ROM image, > is it possible to edit one of the isolinux.cfg entries so that when a > system boots from the disk, the isolinux bootloader fetches another > bootloader from a tftp server, essentially chainloading from a network > location? I can't seem to find a way to put this sort of thing into > action. > > The best resource I've found for this is a website describing the > automatic install process for Mandrakelinux: > http://members.shaw.ca/mandrake/drakx/HTML/section3.html > > Has anyone seen anything like this? > > Cheers, > Jeff > >
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