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SubjectRe: Announce: initrd-tftp 0.1
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Alex Holden <alex@linuxhacker.org> said:

[...]

> Maybe I explained badly what it does and what it's for. It's not for
> systems which can load a RAM disk or initrd normally. It's for systems
> which don't have the ability to load a ramdisk from a disk (because there
> isn't one), but do have the ability to load and execute a block of code
> (the kernel) from the network.

Funny, that is how network booting for installing a SPARC has worked for
ages. Never tried a PC, as they can't boot over the network out of the box,
but I'd be very surprised if it didn't work exactly the same way from
kernel 1.<something> on.
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