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From: petersv@piau.df.lth.se (Peter Svensson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: netbooting NetBSD/sun3
Date: 4 Sep 1995 21:25:24 GMT
Organization: yacc - the Computer Society at Lund University and Lund Institute of Technology
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In article <42cor9$t8k@cnn.nas.nasa.gov>,
Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@lestat.nas.nasa.gov> wrote:
+>In article <42a4be$bg4@isnews.csc.calpoly.edu>,
+>Chris Callanan <ccallana@gauss.elee.calpoly.edu> wrote:
+>
+>>has anyone here netbooted (i.e. no local disk) NetBSD/sun3 off of
+>>a linux machine??????
+>
+>Someone has, I believe, although I think he had to port NetBSD's
+>rpc.bootparamd and rarpd.  Not sure, but I've never heard of a Linux
+>distribution coming with those utilities.

Linux has rarp as a part of the kernel drivers.

Peter