Re: [LUG] Laptop recommendations please

[Mark Evans <mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 03:20:31PM +0000, Alex Charrett 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.

If it has a reasonably standard network card it would be possible to
use etherboot. Either the lilo or .EXE version of the etherboot code
run from a boot options menu. 

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