> > I run DHCP on my home LAN. Recently I've found myself with the need
> > to perform several gentoo installations. It's very handy to just be
> > able to boot the live CD and have the network setup there from the
> > get go.
>> Boot from the CD?
>> Just hit F12 for PXE network boot (on most x86 machines with PXE
> clients), or 'bootp():' or 'boot-net-install' on machines with saner
> firmware than x86.
>> Boot from CD to install? How 90s... ;)
>I lost a good hour of my life trying to configure PXE when the gentoo
live CD wasn't compatible with my BIOS. Oh the joy of it all.
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