Ok, ignoring your false assumptions here, and posing one of my own. You're a student with a old PC, and can probably get your hands on a NIC. Flash iPXE on the

Ok, ignoring your false assumptions here, and posing one of my own. You're a student with a old PC, and can probably get your hands on a NIC. Flash iPXE on the NIC. : https://ipxe.org/start https://ipxe.org/start It allows you to; boot from a web server via HTTP boot from an iSCSI SAN boot from a Fibre Channel SAN via FCoE boot from an AoE SAN boot from a wireless network boot from a wide-area network boot from an Infiniband network and control the boot process with a script. It's open source & very educational.