[H-GEN] OS suggestions wanted for WiFi on a laptop

Robert Stanford rob at rotapile.com
Wed Apr 16 10:07:59 EDT 2003


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On Wed, 2003-04-16 at 21:57, Greg Black wrote:

> I've been told it only works in this boot from CD mode, which
> would make it a non-option for me -- among its many excellent
> features, my laptop's DVD drive is busted, so I need something
> that will boot from floppy and fetch the rest of the stuff from
> the network.  Any way of accomplishing that with Knoppix?

LTSP has a wireless boot floppy image and lots of kernel modules
allowing you to access local devices from shell and get things prepared
for dumping a filesystem onto a drive via nfs.
-- 
Robert Stanford <rob at rotapile.com>


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