On Mon, Feb 05, 2001 at 06:45:10PM +0000, David Forbes wrote:
> It's not (AFAIK) possible to start a RISC OS machine from cold straight
> into NetBSD, across the network.  You will probably always need a kernel
> and a bootloader on the machine (even if it's on a floppy).  However, you
> don't need any NetBSD partitions on a local disk.

I would expect you could do it with the RISC OS machine configured to boot
from the network, and !Boot being served from a fileserver
(ie Econet or later fileserver).

But you'd need to port RISC OS file server protocols to your network system.

On the other hand flashing tftp into the ROM on a network *and* configuring
that module as boot language might just do it
[I knew someone who had the softload 3.97 window manager in ROM because he
flashed it into his network card's ROM, so the ROMs on podules can be put
to other purposes]

Nicholas Clark