Re: Netbooting in NetBSD/amiga?

[Sune Stjerneby <bwulf%image.dk@localhost>]

On Tue, Jul 28, 1998 at 08:18:07AM +0200, Ignatios Souvatzis wrote:
> > 
> > What are the prospects on getting a NetBSD/amiga based system booted
> > via the network?
> > 
> Note that I didn't test this ever...
> 
> - 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.

I can report that I was able to netboot an Amiga with nothing but loadbsd
and the 'GENERIC' kernel (both retrieved by NFS in AmigaDOS from the netboot
server), using the '-a' flag and specifying 'le0' as a boot device.

The server only required 'rarpd' and 'bootparamd' and an exported root
filesystem with NetBSD/amiga.

I'll try compiling a kernel that defaults to NFS, so one could slap a kernel 
and a bootstrap on a 1.76mb floppy and use it to boot any suitable Amiga on
the network.

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