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From: graichen@julia.physik.fu-berlin.de (Thomas Graichen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: BootP?
Date: 28 Aug 1995 13:53:37 GMT
Organization: Freie Universitaet Berlin
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Archie Cobbs (archie@sax.CS.Berkeley.EDU) wrote:
: rogerp@xnet.com (Roger Plichta) writes:
: >   I've seen nothing on the docs pertaining to bootp with freeBSD.  Is it
: >possible?

: It comes with the 2.0.5-RELEASE distribution... or at least it
: showed up on my disk somehow... check out the "bootpd" man page.

: Or do you mean FreeBSD running as a bootp client? Don't know about that.

i sucsessfully set up a bootp server (FreeBSD) and a diskless client booting
from it (FreeBSD too) some days ago - works nice - "man -k bootp" gives you
all relatet man-pages

t

p.s.: it's version 2.0.5-RELEASE
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