Re: Failing to netboot

[Matt Wallis <mattw%madmonks.org@localhost>]

On 28 Apr 2025, at 20:29, Valery Ushakov <uwe%stderr.spb.ru@localhost> wrote:

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.

Trying a v8 boot.net now.. I wouldn’t have thought there would be much changed, but certainly there’s a little variation with each release.

-rwxrwxrwx 1 root  root    66710 Jul 18  2018 boot.net

-rwxrwxrwx 1 root  root    68334 Mar 29  2024 boot.net.10

-rwxrwxrwx 1 root  root    69302 Dec 18 09:28 boot.net.10.1

-rwxrwxrwx 1 root  root    67558 Apr 21  2024 boot.net.9.4

-rwxrwxrwx 1 root  root    66710 Apr 28 21:14 C0A817D3.SUN4C

Matt.