On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 05:40:06PM -0800, John Smith wrote:
> 
> --- Martin Husemann <martin@duskware.de> wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 10:29:00PM +0100, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> > > Just tftp-based, I don't think there is.
> > 
> > But it would probably be trivial to do a boot.net variant that uses
> > tftp
> > to load the whole kernel. And indeed this would be usefull.
> > 
> > Martin
> 
> OK, is there a tool to do that like TILO for Linux?  Or would it be a
> source code kinda thing that would have to be modifyed and compiled?  I
> did a search and didn't find anything, but then I'm new to BSD so might
> not know what I'm looking for.

No, it doesn't exists yet. But starting from the sparc boot.net (which does
NFS) it shouldn't be too hard to get one. There is already a tftp
implementation in libsa, it's just a matter of calling it from
the machine dependant code instead of libsa's NFS implementation.

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
     NetBSD: 24 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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