There is very detailed HOWTO for netboot on www.netbsd.org.

And there is an article on this list:

http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-sparc/2001/01/30/0008.html

which seems to fit to your description.

	Andrey

On Thu, 15 Feb 2001, Dan Field wrote:

> For the last coupple of nights I have been trying to get a sparc2 booting
> netbsd 1.5 from a Linux box.
> 
> I have a bit of experiance with network booting (mostly with Linux) but I
> have come up against a problem that I cant work out.
> 
> after mounting the /exports/sun/root partition and obtaining netbsd kernel
> it fails with the following error
> 
> open: netbsd: Unknown error: code 60
> 
> The Linux server being used is Debian 2.3 (Unstable) with packages recent as
> of last night. 
> 
> any help, much appreciated
> 
> Cheers
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