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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 At 15:20 28/11/03, you wrote: >Quoting James Wonnacott: > > > I'll be using Mandrake. > > Sound etc doesn't bother me. > > As far as network boot what I want to do is actually > > do a network boot off our Linux system which runs a thin client > > so I need a network interface which will do a remote boot. > >I'm not aware of any laptop nics that are network boot capable, it >would seem like an unlikley thing for a company to want to develop >to be honest, the idea >of a thin client is rather at odds to the stand-alone (anywhere) >facilities that a laptop provides. > >I do however reserve the right to be wrong about them existing, as I >don't often get to play with much x86 hardware these days. I use an HP Pavilion ze4111s, bought last Christmas, and I have no problems running WinXP Pro and Mandrake 9.2. All facilities recognised and usable. I have never used it, but the boot menu offers 'boot from network'. regards Mike Callaghan Newquay, Cornwall GPG Fingerprint: 52C0 1F95 EAF0 3736 D8E0 5F59 E214 5779 8D86 B65E -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 8.0 iQA/AwUBP8efwuIUV3mNhrZeEQKwbQCeJ0Bj81hhb62v59yMDu9zL1LDkH8An3gR uN30S1iOW9SAH3jVZKXEk9oS =i/94 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.