On Fri, 22 Aug 1997 00:50:26 +1000 
 Simon Burge <simonb@telstra.com.au> wrote:

 > I don't quite get the smiley here.  What about all the diskless machines
 > out there?  Is there some better alternative to tftp (except for MOP,
 > which we currently use, but is useless for the rest of the non-DEC
 > world)?

tftp/mop/whatever _should_ load a boot program, which then loads the kernel.

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