On Mon, 2 Nov 1998, Ross Wolin wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I just acquired a Sun 3/80 without a hard disk or tape drive.
> 
> I am interested in running NetBSD on this machine,  and I'm going to be buying a 1G or more SCSI drive.
> 
> I have come up with a few schemes to get the generic kernel onto the machine including:
> *Trying to network boot off the NFS server on my FreeBSD machine (a PC)
> *Trying to borrow a SCSI tape drive to boot  from 
> *Trying to format the disk and copy the SunX kernel onto it using a PC running NetBSD
> 
> I was wondering if anyone had tried the third option, or if it wouldn't work because of differences in the file system or bit ordering?
> 
> I was also wondering if the second option would be viable, because I only have PCs available to make the tape (running NT, FreeBSD, and NetBSD.)
> 
> Ideally, if I could find someone in the Seattle area that has a Sun3X machine running NetBSD, I was hoping maybe I could convince them to format my drive and copy the generic kernel onto it so I could get started.
> 
> Thanks for any help,
> 

Personally, to me, netbooting is a cinch, why not just do that?


> Ross
> rowol@serv.net
> 

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