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On Thu, 8 Jan 2004, Diomidis Spinellis wrote:

> I presume the above means a PXE *client*.  This would be cool, but by no
> means trivial.  I looked at this in the past when I wanted to network
> boot FreeBSD on a couple of machines that did not support a boot ROM and
> reached a dead end; I ended up using PicoBSD and NFS-mounting most of
> the stuff.

What about etherboot?  Doesn't it do exactly this?

Jason

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