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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!news.idt.net!news.stealth.net!demos!news.uni-stuttgart.de!news.belwue.de!news-stu1.dfn.de!news-mue1.dfn.de!news-nue1.dfn.de!uni-erlangen.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: netboot info? Date: 25 Nov 1996 23:47:43 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 28 Message-ID: <57db6v$3gb@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <3296D6FC.2781E494@qlink.queensu.ca> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Jake <3rlk1@qlink.queensu.ca> wrote: > Hi, where can I find more info about netbooting? > I have read what is in the handbook, but it is pretty minimal, > anyone know where I can find more complete info? It proved to be sufficient for me. Not for a Sun however, but for a FreeBSD client. (The most work has been to setup a suitable root f/s for the client.) > Can freeBSD be used as a server? That is, does it have bootp? Yep. Yep. bootp is commented out in inetd.conf, however. > I know tftp and nfs are there, but the handbook says it has only been > tested with HP or Sun systems as the boot server. Really? I thought it also tells about FreeBSD. Anyway, why don't you simply _try_ it? I think one attempt to try using it would have got you along much quicker than the Usenet RTT for your article is. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)