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From: terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C)
Subject: Re: Diskless 386bsd ??
Message-ID: <1993May16.203524.5986@fcom.cc.utah.edu>
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Organization: Weber State University (Ogden, UT)
References: <1993May16.094813.16948@ericsson.se>
Date: Sun, 16 May 93 20:35:24 GMT
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In article <1993May16.094813.16948@ericsson.se> etxsral@hal.ericsson.se (Lars Nilsson) writes:
>Does anyone know how to use 386bsd in a 'diskless' configuration ?
>
>I remember that someone posted a patch to alt.sources that made it's
>possible to boot from a floppy and then mount / & swap & /usr from
>a NFS fileserver.
>
>I've searched everywhere for the patch but I can't find it.
>
>Can somebody help me to find the patch or the author of the patch ?
Here are three of them (message ID's of the patches). You may want to check
one of the 386bsd news archives; all three should be there.
From: martin@innovus.com (Martin Renters)
Subject: diskless 386bsd patches
Message-ID: <1993Mar22.053826.17787@mcshub.dcss.mcmaster.ca>
[ single disk boot -- yes remove ]
From: chmr@fstgds01 (Christoph Robitschko)
Subject: Re: Has anyone done this?
Message-ID: <1j728bINN4qd@fstgds15.tu-graz.ac.at>
[ single disk boot -- yes remove ]
From: csb960lanaga@qut.edu.au
Subject: Re: Adding Swapspace ??
Message-ID: <1992Oct19.152534.56839@qut.edu.au>
[ single disk boot -- no remove ]
Terry Lambert
terry@icarus.weber.edu
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