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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!geraldo.cc.utexas.edu!vax From: vax@no.permanent.address (VaX#n8) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: [NetBSD-curr] Booting MS-DOS over net Date: 24 Nov 1994 10:02:32 GMT Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas Lines: 19 Message-ID: <3b1obo$c5b@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: slip-2-92.ots.utexas.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] I'm wondering what stuff I need to know before I get a pair of ethernet cards such that I can boot a MS-DOS machine over the net from my NetBSD-current machine. I hear bootp is the standard, but I remember a bootparam or something like that... In any case, will -any- supported ethernet card with bootp capability work, and if so, how well? What are the issues involved? A Linux friend says that bootp is kinda klunky and unreliable... opinions welcome. Also, how would you later access the MS-DOS file system (which is mounted under NetBSD)... NFS? Is that pretty easy to run from the diskless-booted system? Or from floppy? -- MAIL TO THIS ADDRESS: vax@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu Ask me about BSD Unix for your PC for FREE! (NetBSD) - Yes, it runs fast! Victimless crimes are a figment of the state's collective imagination.