Subject: netboot?
To: None <jhawk@mit.edu>
From: Gordon W. Ross <gwr@jericho.mc.com>
List: port-sun3
Date: 11/02/1994 23:03:04
> Date: Wed, 02 Nov 1994 02:38:11 EST
> From: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>

> I spent an awful lot of time trying to get a 3/60 to netboot
> properly, and I've meant to send flames over here, but I've been a bit
> busy.

Gee, why didn't you just ask?

> Various problem I had included:
> 
> 	Getting it to NFS mount the swap. This required hacking the netbsd
> 	mountd to accept the mount requests...

I think this has been fixed (use mountd -n).

> 	Trying to get the serial console to work properly. I had to munge
> 	around w/ files in /dev for a while.

Was there a problem with the MAKEDEV script I supplied?

> There were some other notable things (perhaps I was just being stupid),
> but I cannot remember them all right now...

Sorry I can't help with that last one :-)

Gordon Ross