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From: jas@proteon.COM ("John A. Shriver")
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Subject: Booting over the Net
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Date: 14 Jul 88 14:38:50 GMT
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It should be doable in theory.  There is certainly enough room in a
typical PC PROM socket to write a TFTP bootstrap.  The part that is
tricky is getting DOS's bootstrap process to work.  What NetWare boot
PROMs do is load a RAM disk into the PC, and boot standard DOS from
it, which in turn starts the NetWare shell.  I presume one could do
the same with PC-NFS inside the RAM disk.  Once that's running, you've
got to do some sort of hyperspace jump to flush the RAM disk and have
DOS running of the NFS disk.

It can be done, it would be intense.