Subject: Re: Sun3/60 NFS booting problems.
To: Christian Nygaard <cnygaard@adept.se>
From: Curt Sampson <curt@portal.ca>
List: port-sun3
Date: 01/25/1996 16:45:51
On Thu, 25 Jan 1996, Christian Nygaard wrote:

> Hi! I=92ve recently tried to install FreeBSD on my Sun3/60...

Really! And I thought only NetBSD ran on the Sun 3s. :-)

> I=92ve gotten so far that the NETBOOT program loads, but then the
> machine hangs when initializing bootparamd protocol, its just standing=20
> there showing its network address in HEX and requesting a address.=20

This is a problem with netboot on some (many?) machines. Unfortunately,
gwr can't reproduce it on his, and nobody else has gotten around to
tracking it down yet. I suggest you replace it with the sSunOS boot
program from the Xkernel kit.

cjs