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Subject: Booting a machine over the network without pxe.
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Does anyone have any experience of booting a machine over the
network, like pxeboot, but without running PXE on a network card.
I imagine that it should be possible to load pxeboot at the boot:
prompt and have everything just work.

I could really do with booting my laptop into -stable, where it's only
got -current installed.  I do however have a -stable server on site with
plenty of disk space.  It would be really cool to remote boot of that
via NFS mounts, etc.

Joe
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