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[PXE] is a network-boot protocol. It stands for Pre-boot eXecution Environment. It is esentially the same as Etherboot. Most modern adapters support PXE now, although they generally still need to have the PXE [BIOS] enabled for this to work. Some NICs (chipsets actually) that support [PXE] Booting: * Realtek 8139 * Intel Pro 100 family * Lots of 3Com cards If you have a PXE bootable card, and a compliant motherboard BIOS, it will boot off PXE just fine. You can see it trying to do this as the machine boots - it might prompt to boot off the NIC, or it might say something about [DHCP], or so on. If for some reason your machine wont boot via PXE (I found in my dual ppro motherboard that if I had a disk enabled it wouldn't let me boot off the [NIC] - I had to disable the drive. As I was trying to use PXE to bootstrap a network install, that didn't help me much), you can perhaps use Microsofts Remote Install Services disk. This is a bootdisk which has the bootcode for PXE for a range of disks on it. More information is [here|http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/technet/prodtechnol/windowsserver2003/proddocs/server/sag_RIS_Boot_Floppy.asp] Here is an (untested) image of a PXE-on-disk bootdisk. http://www.wlug.org.nz/archive/PXE/pxebootdisk.img. dd if=./pxebootdisk.img of=/dev/fd0 will write it to a floppy disk for you The next step, of course, is to making your PXE booting machine do something... [PXELinux], which is part of SysLinux, will help you out here. PXES, mentioned on the DisklessWorkstationNotes page also makes use of PXE Information on how to PXE boot a Soekris board can be found at [SoekrisPXEBoot]
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