Re: Netbooting in NetBSD/amiga?

[Ignatios Souvatzis <is%jocelyn.rhein.de@localhost>]

On Tue, Jul 28, 1998 at 04:16:23AM +0200, Sune Stjerneby wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> What are the prospects on getting a NetBSD/amiga based system booted
> via the network?
> 
> I've had no problems in serving tftp/bootp services from NetBSD/amiga
> and FreeBSD/i386 machines to NetBSD/next68k and NeXTstep machines,
> but current bootstrapping facilities don't seem to provide any support
> for this as a client (it would probably be with the i386 as a server)?
> 
> (The machine is a CBM A4000/040, with the Ariadne and a CV64)

Note that I didn't test this ever...

- we currently dont have a boot loader suitable for burning a boot ROM.
- however: you can build a kernel with the right options to enable net booting.
  if you hard-code the filesystemtype "nfs" as root file system, it will even
  do so unconditionally.