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From: cracauer@wavehh.hanse.de (Martin Cracauer)
Subject: Re: Questions on netbsd/sun3.
Message-ID: <1995Oct26.081927.18351@wavehh.hanse.de>
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Organization: BSD User Group Hamburg
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Date: Wed, 25 Oct 95 10:14:58 GMT
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chris@vespucci.iquest.com (Chris Fisher) writes:

>Okay I've a few questions. The included docs aren't very helpful in this 
>regard how do I get the os up if I dont have sunos to begin with?

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

You need something as well that tells you sun it's IP address when it
broadcasts for one. In theory, even Windows could provide all these
services. I don't know about implementations.

Martin
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