Subject: booting a diskless Ultrix box of a netbsd box?
To: None <port-pmax@netbsd.org>
From: Simon Burge <simonb@netbsd.org>
List: port-pmax
Date: 10/01/1999 18:12:54
A bit of a funny off-topic question...

I'd like to boot a diskless DECstation 5000/133 of a NetBSD server.
Usually, these boot via mop and have a three component boot - an initial
netboot loader, a paramater file (the netblk.o) and the kernel itself.
The mopd we have is hardly non-vax aware and certainly can't handle
sending more than one component to the client.  Does anyone know of a
way to get an Ultrix kernel to use bootp to get it root/swap info?

On the otherhand, if anyone it sitting on patches for accelerated SFB X
then I can drop Ultrix altogether :-)

Simon.