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From: curt@cynic.portal.ca (Curt Sampson)
Newsgroups: netbsd.current-users,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.protocols.nfs
Subject: Re: Booting a Sun3 via network
Date: 26 Jun 1996 15:44:43 -0700
Organization: Internet Portal Services, Inc.
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In article <4qpoam$jko@perry.zippo.com>,
David J. Graff  <phlatline@mhv.net> wrote:
>Hey all, I am trying to do something that is probably very unorthodox as   
>far as network boot systems go. 
> 
>What I am attempting to do is boot a Sun3 under NetBSD being served from a   
>PC runnning Linux.

That's not at all unorthodox. There's a Linux port of Xkernel,
which includes all of the tools you need to do a remote boot of a
Sun 3, as well as a smallish kernel you can run to turn the Sun 3
into an Xterm.

cjs
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