On Tue, 12 Sep 1995, Jason Thorpe wrote:

> For the initial bootstrapping of a machine, network booting might be your 
> best answer.  I am also working on a network installation method that 
> labels a disk, uses NFS to place a miniroot into the `b' partition, and 
> boots into the miniroot for the rest of it.  (Sadly enough, it doesn't 
> look like I'm going to have the time to make tape installation work for 
> the next release.)

Let me see if I understand this correctly, with what you are working on, 
i could hook up my machine to a network, and boot off of say my linux 
machine, and it would format my HD and create the miniroot, so that my 
system would then be able to boot on its own?

Also, their something i do in the bios to tell it to look on a network 
for a boothost? 

Please excuse my ignorance of HP machines, I'm new at them.

Thanks

Brian 

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