Re: Port help wanted/needed?

[David Brownlee <abs%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Sat, 24 Jan 2009, David Johnson wrote:

> Thanks for the answer on this one.  I too have a 4MB Sun3/50M that I had 
> hoped to load NETBSD onto as a diskless workstation.  The monochrome monitor, 
> while difficult to move around, nevertheless has a very crisp display for B/W 
> editing.  But I was unsuccessful at getting through all the steps diskless 
> boot steps and then quit when I learned that the kernel was going to be too 
> large in any case.

        What are you using as a server host? Were you using the Diskless
        NetBSD HOW-TO? http://www.netbsd.org/docs/network/netboot/

        I suspect it could do with some updating

> So thanks for posting this.  Time to dust it off and try again.

        Let us know how it goes! :)

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