Originally Posted by
pdxer
actually, that's exactly what they did. macs have efi (not bios) and apple added the ability to connect with a wifi network and look for published drives. when the user selects the network boot disc, the mac establishes a secure connection, transfers a small kernel, boots it, and then it mounts the network drive and pulls down whatever else it needs from the dvd. it's basically an extension of what they were doing for network booting.
In addition, network booting, called NetBoot, came out with OSX Server in 1999. I think this is the first time you could boot directly over wifi, since you use to have to use an ethernet cable. No doubt booting from DVD over wifi will be very slow. I read a review saying it takes around 10 minutes.