[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: But I still do not understand _how_
> the network card, or PCMCIA or whatever is able to do that job without
> first itself getting installed by (for example) Windows or whatever OS
> is in the terminal/workstation. I mean, that would be great if I could
> just turn on the laptop and have its OS installed by the desktop Win
> 2000. But how? PAT]
The BIOS, possibly assisted by some firmware in the LAN card, has enough "smarts" to initiate the connection to the boot server, and to receive the OS image.
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