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From: david@WUBIOS.WUSTL.EDU ("David J. Camp")
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
Subject: Re: Remote Booting Diskless PC's
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Date: 17 Apr 91 14:09:47 GMT
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In Reply to this Note From: <Edmund J. Sutcliffe>
>
>For a while we have been running a BOOTP server allowing PC's
>to pick up their IP numbers automatically and the Time. I would like to
>take this further and remote boot PCs from our server.
>   Can people tell me what experience they have had of this matter and
>what software they have used. Is there any documentation on the matter
>	Thanks alot
>	  Edmund
>

Certain Ethernet cards include a socket for an optional ROM.
You can buy (probably from Novell) ROMs that boot from a Novell
server.  I have never heard of a PC booting from a TCP/IP server,
but perhaps some of the commercial packages support it, like
FTP PC/TCP and SUN PC/NFS.  -David-

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