Network Booting - howto?

[Florian Diesch]

Gabriel M Dragffy <dragffy at yandex.ru> wrote:

> Now I turn my attention to a new aspect. I now want my laptop to be a
> network boot server. That is I want to be able to network other
> computers to it and they can do a network boot from my laptop - the boot
> will allow them to begin the alternate installation of Dapper.
>
> Problem: I can't find my information on how to do this, the information
> that I have read either is conflicting or not clear enough for me to
> follow. What are the requirements for a computer to become a network
> boot server? I know that tftp comes in to it somewhere but that's the
> limit of my knowledge. Could someone either tell me the things I need to
> do or point me to a decent howto. Cheers!

/usr/share/doc/HOWTO/en-html/Network-Install-HOWTO.html
/usr/share/doc/HOWTO/en-html/Network-boot-HOWTO/index.html

Both are in package doc-linux-html




   Florian
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