Subject: Re: Netboot from BeBox and Ultrix installation
To: Olaf Seibert <rhialto@polder.ubc.kun.nl>
From: David Evans <dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca>
List: port-vax
Date: 03/17/1998 16:55:56
Olaf Seibert wrote:
> 
> Of course I'd like to install NetBSD on it, but first I'd want it to
> netboot from my BeBox. But even though BeOS is mostly POSIX compliant,
> stuff like mopd (requires bpf), rarpd (requires bpf) and rpc.bootparamd
> (requires rpc) isn't all that easy to port.

  AFAIK the current IP-centric nature of the Networking Kit may make these
ports quite difficult.
  However, what might be possible would be to build a boot disk under BeOS.
It should be possible to write out a disk label and a miniroot filesytem.  I
don't really have time to look at it in any more detail than that, though.

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