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From: ragge@teena.ludd.luth.se (Anders Magnusson)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development
Subject: Re: Diskless Sparc with NetBSD-1.0
Date: 26 Feb 1995 13:46:27 +0100
Organization: Lulea University Computer Society - Ludd
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In <bugbyter.3.2F4D2D39@sct.fr> bugbyter@sct.fr (Pierre Seguret) writes:

>Is it possible to run NetBSD-1.0 from the network on a diskless sparc ??

Yes, it's even more than possible, it actually works :-)
We ran it on a couple of diskless SLCs, and the only problem we got
was that when the machine got heavy loaded (much swapping) it ran
out of mbufs. I haven't looked so much at this, maybe later when
I get some spare time.
It was actually a lot faster than SunOS4 as long as there were lots
of free memory in the machine.

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