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From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Can I boot NetBSD/FreeBSD diskless?
Date: 17 Feb 1994 20:00:55 GMT
Organization: Montana State University, Bozeman  MT
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In article <6@crane.ukc.ac.uk>, David Clear <dac@ukc.ac.uk> wrote:
>I haven't seen this mentioned recently but I hope someone can help...
>
>I have a Sun serving filestore to a diskless PC running MSDOG.
>
>Thats where I'm starting from.  What I'd like is:
>	+ A full binary distribution of either NetBSD or FreeBSD to
>	  reside on the Sun fileserver.
>	
>	+ A floppy to boot the system (the PC is used by others so
>	  solutions requiring a screwdriver are not an option).

Martin Renters did the work that is required for this.  This will be in
the FreeBSD 1.1 distribution which is due out RSN.


Nate

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