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From: beckerwj@cs.purdue.edu (William J Becker Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: Questions on netbsd/sun3.
Date: 26 Oct 1995 15:36:44 -0500
Organization: Department of Computer Science, Purdue University
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In article <1995Oct26.081927.18351@wavehh.hanse.de> cracauer@wavehh.hanse.de (Martin Cracauer) writes:
>chris@vespucci.iquest.com (Chris Fisher) writes:
>
>>#2 (evil question)
>>Could I boot the sun3 off a windoze pc if it was running nfsd and tftp? 
>>Is this completely impossible?
>

Unless you can get a windows client that supports the bootparams protocol
used by Sun I doubt it, however I suppose you could mount filesystems
from windows after the sun has booted from elsewhere.

Just my $.02 worth.