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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!howland.reston.ans.net!agate!hpg30a.csc.cuhk.hk!news.cuhk.edu.hk!newsfeeder.ust.hk!nntp.hk.super.net!news.iij.ad.jp!sranha.sra.co.jp!sranhc.sra.co.jp!sran230.sra.co.jp!soda From: soda@sra.CO.JP (Noriyuki Soda) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: diskless client Date: 09 Feb 1996 19:55:34 GMT Organization: Software Research Associates, Inc., Japan Lines: 22 Distribution: world Message-ID: <SODA.96Feb10045535@sran230.sra.CO.JP> References: <4epmp7$6t3@ntucsz.csie.ntu.edu.tw> <4eusir$fql@panix2.panix.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: sran230.sra.co.jp In-reply-to: tls@panix.com's message of 3 Feb 1996 00:41:47 -0500 >>>>> On 3 Feb 1996 00:41:47 -0500, tls@panix.com (Thor Lancelot Simon) said: > Yes. This works somewhat better on architectures that have a real boot > monitor and built-in support for network booting. There are some tools > to build netboot ROMs for various Ethernet cards for the i386 but I > don't think very many -- if any at all -- people are using them. I'm using FreeBSD-2.0.5's netboot program for booting NetBSD/i386 on machines which have only MS-DOS partition, it works fine for NetBSD. (Except it doesn't handle NetBSD's kernel symbol table for DDB, but it doesn't matter ordinary people, and kernel hacker can easily fix netboot program). Note: FreeBSD's netboot can run on both MS-DOS and netboot ROM, and it requires BOOTP and TFTP and NFS setup, though NetBSD kernel requires RARP and BOOTPARAM (and NFS). Yes, you should set up BOOTP and RARP and BOOTPARAM and TFTP and NFS. # Thanks FreeBSD people :-) -- soda@sra.co.jp$B!!!!(BSoftware Research Associates, Inc.$B!!A>EDE/G7(B (Soda Noriyuki)