[plug] next Installfest?

[Bernd Felsche]

On Sunday 29 February 2004 11:40, Cameron Patrick wrote:
> Bernd Felsche wrote:
> | I was hoping to avoid re-inventing the wheel; this time around:
> | http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/html_node/General-usage
> |-of-network-support.html#General%20usage%20of%20network%20suppor
> |t
> | http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/html_node/Diskless.html
> | and from another perspective:
> | http://www.netbsd.org/Documentation/network/netboot/intro.i386.
> |html
>
> Ooh, I didn't realise that GRUB could do that.  Neat!  Does it
> need its own network drivers or use etherboot's?  If the former,
> how does its hardware support compare to etherboot?

It requires "netblock" drivers to be compiled in.

Haven't yet had a chance to try it... there aren't enough of me at
the moment. :-(

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