Re: [cobalt-users] Re-installing OS on RaQ3

[flash22@xxxxxxx]

On Thu, 30 Aug 2001, David Fuchs wrote:

> What would the server do anyway, it isn't as if it can communicate with 
> a CD-ROM on a foreign machine to read boot images without some kind of 
> software interface.  The README doesn't say it, but perhaps this method 
> is an attempt at a netboot (considering the required crossover)?  That 
> would mean that we have a bit of an oversight as I see it, as a BOOTP 
> server is a pretty major pre-requisite for a netboot - a pre-requisite 
> that isn't actually covered in the README.  No BOOTP agent exists on the 
> rescue disc either (as far as I can tell).


It probably should mention you have to boot the **PC** from the cd to make
it a bootp server ;)