Subject: Re: Netbooting.
To: None <netbsd-help@netbsd.org>
From: James K. Lowden <jklowden@schemamania.org>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 05/30/2003 00:01:31
On Thu, 29 May 2003 21:28:08 -0500, Richard Rauch <rkr@olib.org> wrote:
> How much trouble is it to set up a netbooting system?  I've never done
> this before, and gather that i386 machines are congenitally recalcitrant
> here.  But, I've been pondering getting a Soekris or two, which are
> supposedly able to netboot.

I've netbooted three machines for the purpose of installing NetBSD.  If
you start after lunch on a rainy Saturday in a good frame of mind, you'll
be done by dinner.  The documentation is pretty thorough, but a little out
of date and sometimes hard to follow.  

--jkl