On Mon, 21 Sep 1998, Philip Tait wrote:

> Simon Burge wrote:
> 
> > As Jonathan says, the only known way to boot diskless on these types of
> > systems is to boot via MOP of an Ultrix box.
> 
> That sounds too painful....

Well, if you have NetBSD running on some machine (say an i386 or mac68k or
sparc or...), we do have a mopd in the tree which should be able to help
netboot the ultrix boxes.

> > I'll ask a question - what are you trying to do?  If it's simply getting
> > an Ultrix-less DECstation bootstrapped from another NetBSD (or something
> > else) box that also has SCSI, it might be easier to dd the diskimage
> > onto the start of a disk and use that.
> 
> Once we had successfully disklessly-installed NetBSD on a couple of our
> 5000/200s, we were hoping to use the method on all of our pmaxes.  We'll go
> back to using the diskimage method for our /240s, as you suggest.

If you've got NetBSD up, run mopd off it and you should be able to stay
diskless. :-)

Take care,

Bill