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From: christos@deshaw.com (Christos Zoulas)
Subject: Re: sun
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Date: Thu, 29 Jun 1995 22:15:29 GMT
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In article <1995Jun29.145759.392@rwsys.wimsey.bc.ca> rw@rwsys.wimsey.bc.ca (RW) writes:
>We wound up with a sun with a single empty hard drive.. No
>os. We run netbsd on some intel boxes but would like to
>put it on the sun as well. Does anybody have any sugestions
>on how we might install netbsd on the empty drive without
>any os to bootstap from?
>
>--Randy
>rw@rwsys.wimsey.bc.ca

You should be able to boot it from the network I would think.

christos