This is quite interesting.  Granted I haven't tried this in a while,
but I had no problem running a diskless setup.  It used to work like
a charm.

I ran an SLC diskless with nary a hitch (until and unless the server
went down...).

What kinds of problems are you having?

On Tue, 4 Jun 2002, Gerald Richter wrote:

# Ian Burrell wrote:
#
# > Andrew Basterfield wrote:
# >
# >>
# >> For a step by step guide to netbooting sparc please look here:
# >>
# >> http://www.lostgeneration.freeserve.co.uk/sparc/netboot.html
# >>
# >> this is sun4c biased but this is exactly the same for sun4m
# >>
# >
# > I tried netbooting and had problems with it as described in my other
# > message. I got netbooting to work with Debian and OpenBSD but NetBSD is
# > having trouble with my Sparc 10 accessing the root filesystem over NFS.
# > Is it possible to append the root ramdisk to the kernel image? Because
# > that seems to be what works with the other two OSes.
#
#
# Heh, same reason I joined this list originally... and the same answer I
# got. I ended up running OpenBSD on all my netboots because NetBSDs
# netboot is broke when hosted off of anything but a netbsd server (and
# even then it didn't seem completely stable...) of course all my netboots
# are now retired, so it's kinda a moot point for me. Boxes with which
# NetBSD booting was tried: SS IPC, Sun 4/110 VME. Host servers: various
# intel boxes with mostly linux flavors on them, at one point I had a
# gimped 386 running NetBSD that finally managed to host boots occasionally.


				--*greywolf;
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NetBSD: Use the ENTIRE computer!