Subject: Re: question about netboot
To: Marc Ramirez <mrami@mrami.com>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
List: port-sparc
Date: 04/25/1996 10:55:50
On Thu, 25 Apr 1996 02:46:54 -0400 (EDT) 
 Marc Ramirez <mrami@mrami.com> wrote:

 > I just fell into two old SS1's with SunOS 5.5, and I'd like to get 
 > something better on them.  However, I don't want to blow the disks away 
 > just yet, so I was wondering if I could simply install the sparc 
 > distribution on my Intel box and netboot it.

Sure, you can netboot the sparc.  Check out the NetBSD 1.1 installation 
notes.  They describe how to netboot your sparc.

	ftp.netbsd.org:/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-1.1/sparc/

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