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From: dac@ukc.ac.uk (David Clear)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Can I boot NetBSD/FreeBSD diskless?
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 94 18:38:41 GMT
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I haven't seen this mentioned recently but I hope someone can help...

I have a Sun serving filestore to a diskless PC running MSDOG.

Thats where I'm starting from.  What I'd like is:
	+ A full binary distribution of either NetBSD or FreeBSD to
	  reside on the Sun fileserver.
	
	+ A floppy to boot the system (the PC is used by others so
	  solutions requiring a screwdriver are not an option).

On the PC I have access to Microsoft C v7 and that's all.  I tried to
play this game about 6 months ago but it involved compiling something
under MSDOG using a compiler I didn't have.  I know UNIX.  I don't know
MSDOG and I'd rather not have to learn so I'd prefer pointers to PC binaries
to sources.

Thanks for any advice you can give.

Dave.