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From: storm@cs.mcgill.ca (Marc WANDSCHNEIDER)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Boot NetBSD/i386 from network
Date: 21 Oct 1993 04:02:07 GMT
Organization: SOCS, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
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In article <CF763p.AqK@bi-link.owl.de>,
Martin Husemann <martin@bi-link.owl.de> wrote:
>
>Is there any FAQ describing how to set up a NetBSD system for booting
>from the network? I would like to use SMC Elite Plus ethernet cards, where
>can I get the boot-roms for this setup? My dealer only knows about
>Netware and Lan-Manager boot-roms...

	I was looking around in the /sys/arch tree a while back, and
	noted that there is /sys/arch/i386/netboot, which might have
	something you're looking for.  I don't know much about it,
	and I'm sure the friendly folks on the core team will spend
	large amounts of time saying this on the net, but it might
	be what you seeek.




						Marc 'em.

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