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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!kettle.magna.com.au!nsw1.news.telstra.net!sa.news.telstra.net!vic.news.telstra.net!news.mira.net.au!news.netspace.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!news.ececs.uc.edu!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!news-peer.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!uwm.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!jussieu.fr!not-for-mail From: bouyer@dess306.ibp.fr (Manuel BOUYER) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: question.... Date: 16 Oct 1996 12:40:16 GMT Organization: Universites Paris VI/Paris VII - France Lines: 20 Message-ID: <542l3g$cb3@vishnu.jussieu.fr> References: <540m75$a3b@Ares.Manchester.EDU> NNTP-Posting-Host: dess306.ibp.fr Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit To: shepner@eris.manchester.edu X-Newsreader: Newsview 0.39 (last pre-beta) Stephen Hepner (shepner@eris.manchester.edu) wrote: > I had a bunch of old Suns (w/o software) show up and I was wondering what it > would take to load NetBSD on them. > > The machines are 4/60, 4/65, (5) 4/40, 3/60, and a 4/330. There are 2 60M tape > drives (w/o any tapes). Not terribly sure if there are any floppy drives. > Well, I think the best way is to install from a bootp server, if you can set up one (from a sun/SunOS, or another host running NetBSD, this is the best way). If you have a host running SunOS, you could use it to make a NetBSD bootable disk. All this is described in the install instructions for NetBSD/sparc or NetBSD/sun3. -- Manuel Bouyer, MASI, Universite Paris VI. email: bouyer@masi.ibp.fr --