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* Many PCI (and PC-card and Express-card) cards include PXE in their firmware
* Simply install one of these in your system and make it network bootable!
* You can also make a network boot floppy/CD/USB key -- see http://www.etherboot.org and links for details
== More ==
Currently, we support SystemRescueCD and Slax for booting off a cd-rom and .
Download SystemRescueCD iso file and burn the CD.
Once you boot your machine with a SystemRescueCD live CD, the commands to start PBA are these:
dhclient eth0
wget -q -O- http://pba/pba.tgz | tar -xzf - -C /root && sh pba/pba.sh pba
== Technically Speaking ==
* The network boot protocol we use is very common and it's called [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preboot_Execution_Environment PXE]
* It was introduced by Intel and it makes use of the DHCP server and TFTP server to boot a machine off the network
