[ale] PXE Boot from CD?

[Brian Pitts]

David Tomaschik wrote:
> I have an old (P2, IIRC) notebook computer with a dud hard drive that's 
> just been sitting around.  While it's not that critical, I thought it 
> would be fun to get it working (at least somewhat).  My thoughts were to 
> get it to PXE boot with NFS root off my home lan server (which has 
> plenty of disk space).  Unfortunately, it has no integrated network, 
> only a PCMCIA network card (obviously not directly bootable).  So I 
> thought there might be a LiveCD of some sort available to allow PXE 
> booting.  It seems fairly simple, but googling has found lots of people 
> asking about it, but little in the way of direct answers.

Try generating an iso from http://rom-o-matic.net/5.4.3/ if you know 
your NIC type.

-Brian