Subject: Re: Re: NetBooting
To: Chris Conn <cconn@abacom.com>
From: David Brownlee <abs@anim.dreamworks.com>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 03/18/1998 13:14:14
Try reading the diskless.8 manpage - you can use the
netboot program to load the kernel, and tell the kernel
to use a nfs mounted root filesystem, then just run.
David/absolute
"Shall I be tempted by the devil thus?"
"Yes, if the devil tempt you to do good..."
On Wed, 18 Mar 1998, Chris Conn wrote:
> David Brownlee:
> > You should just be able to extract the NetBSD/sun3 distribution
> > onto the linux box and export it to the sun.
> >
> > Brian Chase has a NetBSD/vax netboot howto - booting a sun should
> > be the same once the first stage boot program has loaded...
> >
> > http://world.std.com/~bdc/projects/vaxen/VAX-netboot-HOWTO.html
>
> I don't understand how I can use the netboot file to boot the Sun and then to continue to boot from the network...the netboot program only allows me to do the install stuff like edlabel and the like... Is anyone doing this on a Sun???
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Chris Conn
>