Subject: Re: Remote booting followup
To: John , <port-mac68k@netbsd.org>
From: Sean Riley <sean@therileys.org>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 05/26/2001 12:14:31
John-

I would love a copy of that :-)  Do post, or you can e-mail directly if you 
prefer.

TIA

SR

On Friday 25 May 2001 18:11, John wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have found Apple's Network Access Disk, which will boot on all m68k Macs
> and will allow access to AppleTalk servers.
>
> However, this will only work with ethernet cards that do not require
> additional drivers. Seeing how most cards have their own ROMs, this
> shouldn't be an issue.
>
> There is only about 10k of space on the drive, so you'd be able to add a
> few aliases, but nothing else. There is literally nothing extra to take
> out - all of the folders in the System Folder are spartan.
>
> This would also be an ideal System for the MacOS partition on regular hard
> disk based NetBSD systems, since it is so tiny. Even with the bootstrap
> loader and a few other utilities, everything can fit onto a 2 meg
> partition, and the installation can be done over AppleTalk, which makes
> things quite convenient. I think I'm going to start using this!
>
> If anyone would like this, let me know. I can email it or make it
> available via anonymous FTP.
>
> Thanks,
> John Klos