Inorder for the SHARK to boot from 'net do I have to
have a DHCP server with tftp enabled. Does this
machine has to be a linux/netbsd/freebsd os or can a
Win95/98 do the job? Any directions is very much
appriciated.

Thx and regds

--- Ignatios Souvatzis <ignatios@cs.uni-bonn.de>
wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 06:31:40AM -0800, Jameel
> wrote:
> 
> > I have a SHARK with Zip drive and I would like to
> get
> > it loaded with NetBSD with a harddrive or zip
> disk. So
> > far I have been able to only find docs on what are
> the
> > parameters for booting from hdd, how do I get the
> > NetBSD binaries to the drive or the zip disk?
> 
> Easiest, use the upcoming NetBSD-1.5 Shark
> installation kernel, booted 
> over the 'net (you need a dhcp server holding its
> network configuration
> information and a tftp server holding the kernel
> itself (maybe gzipped!)
> 
> The kernel embeds a file system with the installer
> program, which can handle
> all the other stuff.
> 
> Regards
> 	-is
> 

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