Re: Failing to netboot

[Valery Ushakov <uwe%stderr.spb.ru@localhost>]

On Mon, Apr 28, 2025 at 13:56:32 +1000, Matt Wallis wrote:

> No matter what I do though I get “Transfer failed, The file
> downloaded does not appear to be executable.”  I’ve tried boot.net
> <http://boot.net/> from 9.4, 10 and 10.1, I’ve tried a generic
> kernel, just to see if I can get something to execute.

An IPX writeup at https://ogris.de/howtos/netbsd-sparc-install.html
seems to indicate that 8.0 did netboot on an IPX.  May be try boot.net
from there?  Though I think boot.net last changed in the previous
millenium.

-uwe