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From: kstailey@hill.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Kenneth Stailey)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: Questions on netbsd/sun3.
Date: 26 Oct 1995 20:46:02 GMT
Organization: MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab
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In-reply-to: jtc@rtl.cygnus.com's message of 24 Oct 1995 17:29:05 -0700

Chris> #2 (evil question)
Chris> Could I boot the sun3 off a windoze pc if it was running nfsd and tftp? 
Chris> Is this completely impossible?

jtc> I think you would need rarpd and rpc.bootparamd too.

and long filenames too.

You can boot a NetBSD/sun3 off of another NetBSD box, a SunOS box, a Linux
box, etc.

~Ken