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Most modern machines can boot off the network by enabling it in the BIOS
Some systems may require settings to enable network boot in the BIOS, under boot options and in some cases some enable network booting only if this setting is enabled in the advanced menu. See these two examples.
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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
