Subject: Re: NetBSD installation ?
To: John P.Looney <valen@redbrick.dcu.ie>
From: David Brownlee <abs@anim.dreamworks.com>
List: port-sun3
Date: 11/16/1998 09:26:20
You should be able to netboot it from pretty much any other unix
machine with an ethernet card.
See:
http://www.netbsd.org/Documentation/network/netboot/index.html
The sun3 specific instructions have not been filled in yet, but
the sparc ones should be pretty close :)
David/absolute
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On Mon, 16 Nov 1998, John P.Looney wrote:
> Hi...I don't know are there many people still on this list, but..
>
> I have an old Sun3/50 (is there such a thing as a new one), and want to
> stick an OS on it. NetBSD looks good, but i've no idea how to go about
> it...are there installation instructions off www.netbsd.org ?
>
> Also, seeing as the machine has no CD/floppy, can it be installed from a
> another machine (Hurd allows an untarring of a tarfile from a linux box),
> or will I have to download everything,and make a bootable CD, and then
> scavenge a SCSI CD ?
>
> John
>
> --
> 'As my grandmother used to say, as she worked away on her spinning wheel,
> "Those who do not remember history, are doomed to repeat it, especially if
> they change the addressing modes, or wordsize of their architechture"'
> - Peter Van Der Linden
>