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On Tue, 2 Sep 2003, Josef Karthauser wrote:

> Does anyone have any experience of booting a machine over the
> network, like pxeboot, but without running PXE on a network card.

The floppies of etherboot (see ports) work just fine. Or use the
bootloader on your IDE disk.

Dw