On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 11:58:21PM -0400, Halim Chtourou wrote:

> Hi,
> I read all the posts about netbooting...  I'd like to know if this is 
> possible, because of any hardware limitations of operating system 
> compatibility issues.  I want to export a directory on my G4 running Mac 
> OS X (which has plenty of disk space) via NFS, and have my PowerBook 
> 520c (which has very limited space) use that NFS volume as it's root 
> filesystem and run NetBSD? (assuming I setup a proper NetBSD/mac68k 
> installation in the exported directory).  What would be the best way to 
> setup this 68k netbsd installation on my G4? I no longer  have my 
> Centris, so I can't copy it from an existing system.

What I'm doing is booting off of a kernel on the internal hdd (Q650), and
running a dhcp server on my PC and mounting everything off of an nfs
volume hosted by that PC.  It works pretty well, albeit very very slowly.  
I imagine with the appropiate MacOS file sharing tweaking, you could even 
put the NetBSD kernel on a remote FS.

Basically I just untarred the tarballs onto the PC, and made the
appropiate devices.

I'm currently running a make build, so I'll see how that goes...

- alex