I haven't used this myself, but the Macbook Air has always been able to boot from a remote DVD drive straight from EFI. http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13727_7-10

I haven't used this myself, but the Macbook Air has always been able to boot from a remote DVD drive straight from EFI. http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13727_7-10329287-263.html?tag=mfiredir http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13727_7-10329287-263.html?tag=m... Perhaps this works in a similar way?