Subject: Re: Completely diskless operation?
To: Simon Burge <simonb@telstra.com.au>
From: David Brownlee <abs@anim.dreamworks.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 01/07/1999 19:46:28
Would anyone be willing to write up an FAQ entry for booting an
diskless (or at least ffs-less) i386 host? Pretty please? :)
Text is fine if you don't want to bother with html.
David/absolute
-=- Resentment is a renewable resource -=-
On Fri, 8 Jan 1999, Simon Burge wrote:
> Thanks to Martin Husemann, Dave Huang and Soren Jorvang for suggesting
> that himem.sys is getting in the way of loading the kernel with
> dosboot.com. I've now learnt far too much about PC's and DOS in the
> last day or so, and can now go back to plain ole NetBSD, whilst also
> keeping the powers that be at work happy that I haven't wrecked their
> machine :-)
>
> Thanks all.
>
> Simon (who still prefers DECstations for ease of configuration)
>