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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
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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?
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