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From: rmk@rmkhome.com (Rick Kelly)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: Booting across the network
Date: 7 Mar 1997 03:58:30 GMT
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Jim Hart (jhart@litenet.net) wrote:
: I have a Sun 3 system sitting here that I would like to run NetBSD on but
: the hard
: drive is dead.  My question is can I boot the machine w/o a hard drive
: across the
: network like XKernel does?

And the answer is yes.  You'll find the instructions in the INSTALL file.

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