[Gllug] LiveCD that boots withoiut confirmation

[Matthew King]

Avi Greenbury <avismailinglistaccount at googlemail.com> writes:

> On Mon, 03 Mar 2008 13:55:17 +0000
> Tethys <sta296 at astradyne.co.uk> wrote:
>
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>> Avi Greenbury writes:
>> 
>> >Problem is that most of the LiveCDs i've seen either require you to pick
>> >an option (install, boot from CD, boot from first HDD etc.) or give a
>> >boot: prompt for kernel options.
>> 
>> The obvious solution is to get them to network boot instead. Configure
>> their BIOS to have network booting as the highest priority option, set
>> up a boot server and away you go.
>
> Actually, that's rather obvious. Why didn't I think of that? ;)

Bear in mind that when you are inevitably called for your assistance to
turn it off, merely saying "take the CD out" will not work.

Matthew

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