Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!ucbvax!proteon.COM!jas From: jas@proteon.COM ("John A. Shriver") Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc Subject: Booting over the Net Message-ID: <8807141438.AA13141@monk.proteon.com> Date: 14 Jul 88 14:38:50 GMT References: <11231@emerald.BBN.COM> Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 10 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.