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How do i make a bootdisk/cd that boots that detects my network card and start a install of a program for example a windows installation from a nix server (samba share)..
have a look at http://slax.linux-live.org/ they have a script avaible to create own live cds based on slackware you could build yourself a little live cd that detects your cards and so on and has a little command line and some tools onboard to perform some installation stuff
"How do i make a bootdisk/cd that boots that detects my network card and start a install of a program for example a windows installation from a nix server (samba share).."
You could build your own using LifeBoat as a base:
I've had nothing but bad luck with the scripts at linux-live.org. The ovlfs kernel module is a critical component of these scripts, but it completely doesn't compile on any of my machines. The ovlfs documentation doesn't look like it's been updated in quite a while either.
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