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Subject: Re: [9fans] PXE bootings
Date: Tue,  5 Apr 2005 17:16:42 -0700
From: geoff@collyer.net
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As a software person, I'd say that you have to mess with the phys
because of incompetent hardware design.  Yes, the phys should just
come up in a usable state.  But more and more (crap) hardware now
requires software to be intimately familiar with it and configure it
before it can be used.