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From: andrew@wipux2.wifo.uni-mannheim.de (Andrew Wheadon)
Newsgroups: netbsd.current-users,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.protocols.nfs
Subject: Re: Booting a Sun3 via network
Date: 26 Jun 1996 12:22:26 GMT
Organization: Rechenzentrum Uni-Mannheim
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In article <4qpoam$jko@perry.zippo.com>,
David J. Graff  <phlatline@mhv.net> wrote:
>What I am attempting to do is boot a Sun3 under NetBSD being served from a   
>PC runnning Linux.  I have NetBSD and all of it's support archives and   
>hopefully won't need much more as far as netbsd goes.  The Linux side is a   
>much more tricky question.  I have never setup a diskless workstation and   
>am curious as to how to do it. 

Take a look at
ftp://wipux2.wifo.uni-mannheim.de/~ftp/pub/NetBSD/ports/i386/diskless
It describes how to 'diskless' boot NetBSD clients from a NetBSD server.
The only things you'll have to apply to the Linux server are in
server/etc, server/var, and server/usr but the server/boot stuff 
will be no different between linux or netbsd as long as the client
is netbsd.
Cheerio
-- 
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