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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!bruce.cs.monash.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yeshua.marcam.com!MathWorks.Com!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!howland.reston.ans.net!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!sgiblab!cs.uoregon.edu!news.uoregon.edu!usenet.coe.montana.edu!bsd.coe.montana.edu!nate From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Can I boot NetBSD/FreeBSD diskless? Date: 17 Feb 1994 20:00:55 GMT Organization: Montana State University, Bozeman MT Lines: 23 Message-ID: <2k0idn$80c@pdq.coe.montana.edu> References: <6@crane.ukc.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: bsd.coe.montana.edu In article <6@crane.ukc.ac.uk>, David Clear <dac@ukc.ac.uk> wrote: >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). Martin Renters did the work that is required for this. This will be in the FreeBSD 1.1 distribution which is due out RSN. Nate -- nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu | FreeBSD core member and all around tech. nate@cs.montana.edu | weenie. work #: (406) 994-4836 | Graduating May '94 with a BS in EE home #: (406) 586-0579 | - looking for work in CS/EE field.