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From: "Jim Hart" <jhart@litenet.net>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: Booting across the network
Date: 8 Mar 1997 17:26:48 GMT
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I did manage to figure that part out. but now when it try to boot I get a
message saying RPC timeout for server SERVER-ADDRESS in hex.  This message
comes up right after the boot process says root on HOSTNAME:SUBDIR.  It
sounds like a nfs problem but nfs seem to be working.  Is there something I
may be missing like another RPC call that happens at this time?  I'm usinga
Linux box as the server, if knowing that helps.

TIA,
--jim
jhart@litenet.net

Rick Kelly <rmk@rmkhome.com> wrote in article
<5fo3p6$qa0@news-central.tiac.net>...
> Jim Hart (jhart@litenet.net) wrote:
> : 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?
> 
> And the answer is yes.  You'll find the instructions in the INSTALL file.
> 
> --
> Rick Kelly  rmk@seahag.rmkhome.com  rmk@rmkhome.com 
>             http://tencats.rmkhome.com
>