Subject: Re: Netbooting an Ultra/1
To: None <eeh@netbsd.org>
From: Curt Sampson <cjs@cynic.net>
List: port-sparc
Date: 04/08/1999 16:30:49
On Thu, 8 Apr 1999, Eduardo E. Horvath wrote:

> Don't know.  I don't have the equipment available to test out netbooting.
> I just compiled a version of ofwboot with the NFS stuff turned on
> thinking it might be useful to someone. 

Ok, I may have a look at that, then. I'm quite new to all of this
stuff; can I compile the sparc64 bootblock on an SS20 running NetBSD
1.4 or thereabouts?

> You can try loading the kernel directly since the OBP should be able to
> handle ELF executables natively.

I'll try that that.

> > [large disclaimer]
> 
> Hm... That's interesting information. 8^)

Right. I was doing this from work, where I have no access to machines
on the Internet, and that's what the e-mail system there appears
to add to all messages going outside the company.

cjs
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