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From: "Jim Hart" <jhart@litenet.net>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Booting across the network
Date: 5 Mar 1997 22:04:14 GMT
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I have a Sun 3 system sitting here that I would like to run NetBSD on but
the hard
drive is dead.  My question is can I boot the machine w/o a hard drive
across the
network like XKernel does?

TIA,
--jim
jhart@litenet.net