[plug] Helpers wanted - Netbooting Installations

[Leon Brooks]

On Wed, 26 May 2004 09:38, Bernard Blackham wrote:
> The real killer though is that the network card will need to be
> supported by the OS's installation (eg, Debian has most of it's
> network drivers amongst the 4 drivers floppies, which aren't easily
> accessible via netbooting). A solution to this would be good :)

Since the driver code is sent as part of the PXE server's gifts to the 
bootee (Mandrake's solution is to rebuild a different initial RAMdisk 
for each NIC driver, which takes a fair while to do but only needs to 
be done once when setting up the server), this is not necessarily a 
universal problem.

Cheers; Leon