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From: randy@jness.async.vt.edu (Randy)
Newsgroups: netbsd.current-users,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.protocols.nfs
Subject: Re: Booting a Sun3 via network
Date: 6 Jul 1996 00:00:59 GMT
Organization: Randy
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Curt Sampson <curt@cynic.portal.ca> said:
>In article <4qpoam$jko@perry.zippo.com>,
>David J. Graff <phlatline@mhv.net> wrote:
>>Hey all, I am trying to do something that is probably very unorthodox as
>>far as network boot systems go.
>>
>>What I am attempting to do is boot a Sun3 under NetBSD being served from a
>>PC runnning Linux.
>
>That's not at all unorthodox. There's a Linux port of Xkernel,
>which includes all of the tools you need to do a remote boot of a
>Sun 3, as well as a smallish kernel you can run to turn the Sun 3
>into an Xterm.
>
>cjs
>--
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>Internet Portal Services, Inc.
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Is it possible to do this w/o ethernet??????????????????????? I have
seen the files on how to boot via network, but all they did was confuse
me more.. this is my first attmept at installing a unix system of any
kind. Would it be possible to set up a Sun 3/50 via a network boot
through the serial port? on a through a machine running linux 1.2.3??
thanx
randy
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