Hi,

I have downloaded the NetBSD-1.3 binary tree and am planning
to install it on two HP9000/425t w/32MB RAM.
They are both diskless (well... the RODIME are dead) so as I see it right
now
I have these two "cheap" possibilities:

1) Install NetBSD on a HD (Micropolis 2112, SCSI 2,1GB)  presently
    attached to a PC  running  Debian/Gnu Linux (i486/33MHz+16MB RAM)
    and  and use rbootd as explained  (and recently discussed in this list)
 in
         http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~pmaydell/hp/
    But... will the recipe work for NetBSD 1.3?,  Nat Gelbard has recently
reported
    problems.  BTW, how do I create the NetBSD fs? Just untarring the sets
on
    a ext2fs?

or alteranatively...

2) Backup the Linux fs, Low level format it,  make it behave as a SCSI- 1
(via jumper),
     fresh install NetBSD 1.3 on the HD now attached to the HP box,
     restore the Linux fs on the HD (how? on a ufs?)
     and nfs export it so the intel box can boot from the net.
     Has somebody out there boooted a Linux from a NetBSD box?.

Which alternative do you thing is more doable?
In theory any of those should work, but in practice ...
Are there any "official" HOWTOs?

I would like to have a Unix-like working system meanwhile
I learn about NetBSD (for which I have more raw-computing power).
That leaves out of question an immediate conversion of the PC box
from Linux to NetBSD.

Thanks for any answer/opinion/pointer,

Lazaro
<salem@statoil.no>