Subject: Re: netboot i386?
To: Kevin Jordan <krjordan@348north.com>
From: Hubert Feyrer <hubert@feyrer.de>
List: port-cobalt
Date: 02/23/2006 03:54:22
On Wed, 22 Feb 2006, Kevin Jordan wrote:
> I have an older AMD Duron machine that I would like to install NetBSD on. 
> This particular machine has non-functioning CD-ROM and floppy drives and is 
> being a general pain to get things installed on.  Based on my experience with 
> using the install CD to netboot/install NetBSD on my Raq2, I'm curious on 
> whether CDs exist that will let me do the same thing on my AMD machine... 
> does such a thing exist?

Not exactly a CD, but:
http://www.netbsd.org/Documentation/network/netboot/
http://www.netbsd.org/Documentation/network/netboot/intro.i386.html

Pretty straight forward, if your BIOS does PXE.
Useful for troubleshooting: tcpdump, ethereal.


  - Hubert