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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!sdd.hp.com!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!uknet!ukc!crane.ukc.ac.uk!dac 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 Organization: University of Kent at Canterbury, UK. Lines: 20 Sender: dac@ukc.ac.uk Distribution: world Message-ID: <6@crane.ukc.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: crane.ukc.ac.uk 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.