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Brooks Davis wrote:
 > No, I mean a server.  The hard part about using PXE to install a box is
 > setting up the other box to boot the box your are installing on.  It's
 > not all the difficult, but it require a bit of knowledge, some grunt
 > work, and a reasionable UNIX-like machine to start from.  What I propose
 > is adding enough stuff to disk 1 that you can do pxe installs like this:

Nice idea!  My mind was fixated on older machines that do not support 
PXE; as I always have a couple of FreeBSD servers around at work/home I 
failed to realise that setting up a PXE server could ever be a problem.

Diomidis