[plug] Setting up Bootable diskless workstations over network and remote booting

[Daniel]

Hi plug, I wonder if someone can put me right on this - to be able to boot 
diskless workstations do you need both a PXE compatable bios and NIC? Are 
these things expensive? Presumably the boot choice will then be available 
in the bios? (I know much more would need to be done to set up a bootable 
image it can access from the server)

Is this the same sort of setup that can be used for remote booting of a 
regular machine with a hdd (as described by iinet at their open day to 
reconfigure a server remotely - they went on to say that they can remotely 
setup a new machine as a mail server running Debian in 10 
minutes).  Presumably if setup correctly it could be made to get an image 
of any o/s and dump it back on the machine's hdd?

http://www.linuxdevices.com/articles/AT5834950453.html

Regards,
Daniel.