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From: thorpej@lestat.nas.nasa.gov (Jason R. Thorpe)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: netbooting NetBSD/sun3
Date: 3 Sep 1995 17:32:25 GMT
Organization: Numerical Aerodynamic Simulation Project - NASA Ames
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In article <42a4be$bg4@isnews.csc.calpoly.edu>,
Chris Callanan <ccallana@gauss.elee.calpoly.edu> wrote:

>has anyone here netbooted (i.e. no local disk) NetBSD/sun3 off of
>a linux machine??????

Someone has, I believe, although I think he had to port NetBSD's
rpc.bootparamd and rarpd.  Not sure, but I've never heard of a Linux
distribution coming with those utilities.

You might want to post to port-sun3@NetBSD.ORG with this question.

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