how to netboot a Linux VM in VMware server 2.0 ?

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Published on 2010-02-02T13:05:23Z Indexed on 2010/03/12 3:07 UTC
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Folks,

I am new to using VMware, so please excuse if this is a newbie question.......

How can I netboot a guest Linux virtual machine ? I'm using VMware server 2.0 running on a Linux host ( Fedora ).

Would appreciate any pointers…..

Cheers !! S

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