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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!usc!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!uunet!newsflash.concordia.ca!sifon!homer.cs.mcgill.ca!storm 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 Lines: 25 Message-ID: <2a51jv$koi@homer.cs.mcgill.ca> References: <CF763p.AqK@bi-link.owl.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: mnementh.cs.mcgill.ca 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. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Marc Wandschneider Seattle, WA Barney the Dinoaur sings! You faint... Barney sings! Barney sings! --More-- You Die... --More--