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From: petersv@merlin.df.lth.se (Peter Svensson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: NetBSD on old SPARCS
Date: 28 Jul 1996 13:40:37 GMT
Organization: yacc - the Computer Society at Lund University and Lund Institute of Technology
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In article <4tea20$gm3@netix.telecall.co.uk>,
C. Newport <crn@netix.org.uk> wrote:
>Have you got bootpd running ?

You do not use bootpd to boot a sparc, you use bootparams. They are two 
different protocols.

You also need an rarp server (see man rarp) and an tftp-server.

Peter