Remote boot?

["Juha Saarinen" <juha_saarinen email msn com>]

Got a semi-ancient notebook without a floppy drive and a CD ROM drive that
can't read multi-session CD-Rs. It's attached to my LAN via a Xircom PCMCIA
adapter, and running RH 5.1.

I'd like to upgrade the system to 5.2, but can't think of a sensible way to
do it. The notebook can't read the CD-R with 5.2 on it, but even if it
could, it can't boot from CDs so I guess that wouldn't work either.

Thought about setting it up for diskless booting with NFS, but the prospects
of setting up RARP or BOOTP and getting it all to work over a PCMCIA
Ethernet adapter don't seem that great.

Is there any other way to do it? I'd like to mount the RH 5.2 CD ROM on the
server, and run the install/setup from the workstation. The HOWTOs say that
in order to do an ftp or NFS install, I need to have a boot and the
supplemental diskette, but that's not possible in this case (unless they can
be mounted on the server of course ;-)). If I could boot the notebook up in
DOS and access the CD ROM, I'd be in the clear, but the HD has no DOS
partition currently.

I guess I could try to find space for the 5.2 RPMs on the notebook's HD and
do things the manual way, but...

Regards,

-- Juha

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*	Juha Saarinen
*	Information Technology Writer
*	juha_saarinen email msn com
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