On Mon, 5 Feb 2001, Kjetil B. Thomassen wrote:

> I have an Acorn Risc PC with no working IDE drive, and the rest of the
> drives are Power-tec ones. They are known not to work well with NetBSD
> *and* RISC OS, so if I am to make that work I have to dedicate them to
> NetBSD.
>
> I have a Sun SPARCstation 2 running NetBSD 1.4 with lots of disk, and I
> would like to use that as a boot server for my Risc PC, including
> mounting the kernel and the root file system.
>
> >From what I have seen, that probably is not possible today, but I may be
> wrong here. Am I wrong?

	You should be able to build a kernel with 'root on nfs', and boot
	it from disk on the Risc PC. Setup the sparc box with dhcpd and
	nfs and with a copy of the same kernel in the root of the nfs
	exported directory and away you go.

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