Re: CD player replacement

In article <YYJPj.1931$LQ4.1736@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Jonathan Biggar <jon@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Henrik Carlqvist wrote:
ebenZEROONE@xxxxxxxxxxx (Hactar) wrote:

Henrik Carlqvist <Henrik.Carlqvist@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Maybe another option would be to boot by PXE network

Possibly. Where the stereo cabinet is, there's not a reasonable way to
use wired LAN, so it'd have to be wireless.

To use PXE network boot your network card must have BIOS making it capable
to boot. Some network cards have a socket for placing a PROM with such a
BIOS. Many motherboards with builtin NICs also have such a BIOS which can
be enabled in the CMOS setup.

However, wireless network is a little bit more complex than wired lan. I
don't know if there are any wireless cards which it is possible to boot
from.

It might also possible to find a boot floppy or cdrom that has the right
drivers to PXE boot from.

Might. What would be more flexble is to boot from a custom CD-R (which
I configure on my other machine) that does the thing LiveCDs do
(whatever that is) to make / on a RAMdisk. Or maybe a USB thumb drive.
Or maybe an IDE-CF adapter, if it won't boot from USB.

You can also use an external wireless bridge attached to a wired NIC in
order to get PXE boot to work.

That would work? Cool. How would I configure the bridge for the right
SSID/password to use?

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