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Robert Michel
02-25-2003, 09:51 PM
Salve,

Knoppix would be great for installing GNU/Linux on Laptops without
CD-Rom drives. But etherboot and rom-o-matic are not
supporting PCMCIA network adapters ;(

My idea is to use an other Laptop that runs Knoppix, plug in that
PCMCIA network adapter and to start a skript that creats a
boot-image that fit to that adapter, automaticaly.
This boot-image can be moved to the boot-partition of the
actually hd, saved as file, mailed, stored on Knoppix-webserver.

Such a skript can be used for creating network-bootdisks for Knoppix
too. Go to an unknown PC, boot Knoppix, put in a FD, start that
skript and start the PC with that FD and an Knopix-Terminal-server
next time :)

I'm sorry to be not yet skilled enough to present you already the
solution ;)

Would you like to fork this?
Any ideas, or good descriptions, how to do this?

see:
http://www.etherboot.org

Greetings
rob