[Soekris] 5501 boot from cdrom

[Stuart Henderson]

On 2008-12-04, Andrew Thomas <raffles at teambadattitude.co.uk> wrote:
> PXE boot isn't really for the faint hearted.

depends on the OS. for some it's very simple providing you can
read and follow instructions, just a handful of steps. for others
iirc you get to either configure NFS or rebuild your boot loader...

> For a start you will need
> a Linux PC with a DHCP server and a proper PXE configuration/image.

DHCP and TFTP servers are available for almost every OS, then you
just need to place a boot-loader and kernel (and maybe a boot loader
config file) in a directory accessible via TFTP, and configure DHCP.

no need for Linux, or even any Unix-like OS.