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4. Begin setup

4.1 Document Changes

Following are the history of changes to this document:

4.2 How to set up a diskless Linux box

This document is about setting up a diskless Linux box. Sometimes it might be necessary to run Linux on PC's which have neither hard disks nor floppy drives. If a network, another Unix system with bootp, tftp, an NFS server, and an eprom burner is available then it is possible to set up and operate Linux without hard/floppy disks.

4.3 Related documents

4.4 How does it work?

DC thinks a while (booting Linux). Network boot ROM contains code to do 1 and 3.

4.5 Hardware

Whatever is described here was checked on the following configuration


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