Re: [LUG] linux in schools - terminal ... man

[Steve Marvell <steve@xxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Sep 03, 2002 at 10:20:30AM +0100, Andrew Rogers wrote:

> Without a harddrive or any other bootable drive you can't boot. But you
> can also boot from a ROM chip. This ROM plugs into the ethernet card.
> The system is booted from this ROM and has a TFTP (Trivial FTP) client
> that downloads a kernel from a server. You can also put Etherboot on a
> floppy disk if you don't have facilities to program ROMs.

I know I can't do that, and it seems a waste to have a hard drive and
not use it.

Steve

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