On Thursday, May 22, 2003, at 01:17  AM, Erik E. Fair wrote:

>> There is no mention of PXE - I don't know anything about PXE, but I'd
>> expected it to be mentioned in this page nowadays ;-)
>
> I don't know much about PXE either, save that it is i386 specific, and 
> thus ought to be in the man8.i386/boot.8 man page. I do mention that 
> some "BIOSes" support netbooting...

It is not i386-specific.  It is also used by IA64, and the PXE spec 
also mentions Alpha and MIPS, I believe.

PXE is really extensions stacked on top of DHCP.

         -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>