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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au!news.apana.org.au!cantor.edge.net.au!news.teragen.com.au!news.access.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mel.aone.net.au!grumpy.fl.net.au!news.webspan.net!newsfeeds.sol.net!europa.clark.net!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!howland.erols.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!netnews.litenet.net!news 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 Organization: LiteNet Express, Inc. Lines: 27 Message-ID: <01bc2c54$23cf6280$23a386d0@jhart-pc.icci-corp.com> References: <01bc2a1f$551abe20$23a386d0@jhart-pc.icci-corp.com> <5fo3p6$qa0@news-central.tiac.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: jhart-pc.iccicorp.com X-Newsreader: Microsoft Internet News 4.70.1155 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:5581 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 >