Subject: Re: Booting NetBSD on diskless HP300's...
To: Greg Oster <oster@cs.usask.ca>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
List: port-hp300
Date: 02/16/1995 22:57:20
On Thu, 16 Feb 1995 23:04:34 -0600 
 Greg Oster <oster@cs.usask.ca> wrote:

 > (We are currently running the 400's diskless under HP-UX 8.0, so I figure it
 > should be possible if NetBSD has the necessary stuff (It looks to me like it 
 > has all the necessary pieces, but I'm not 100% certain...))

The `most diskless' I've run an hp300 was a small disk for / and swap.  
I'm not totally sure, but I *think* kernel support for the hp300 totally 
diskless is all there...one hitch - you can't currently netboot an 
hp300...I've fiddled with some network bootblocks, but never got them to 
work...

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