I would suggest initially setup the linux to netboot
	the hp300 boxs, then see how you go from there.

	Personally I run NetBSD on my PC, which makes it easier to
	get NetBSD running on other 'real workstation' hardware :)
	(such as Vax & sparc boxes), but the howto you quoted
	should still work fine for booting NetBSD/hp300 1.3 under
	Linux.

	Good luck!

		David/absolute

          .:. "I'm not an angel... I'm not that quaint..." .:.

On Thu, 29 Jan 1998 SALEM@statoil.no wrote:
> 
> 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>
> 
> 
>