Subject: Re: What releases of early sun3 NetBSD on 3/160.
To: None <jwbirdsa@carfallin.picarefy.com>
From: Miod Vallat <miodrag@ifrance.com>
List: port-sun3
Date: 03/04/2000 22:20:06
>    One of the keys to netbooting NetBSD on a Sun-3 is patience. RARPing and
> tftp'ing the bootstrap loader is fast enough, but then the bootstrap seems
> to scan the local network looking for a bootparam server. Since I have an
> entire class C, and the bootparam server is at .99, the process takes
> several minutes. I haven't found anything in the documentation about this,
> or how to speed it up.
Then I can consider myself lucky as the rarp/tftp/bootparam server is .1.
Now that you mention it, there used to be a much longer delay when the
bootparam server was .5 (with .2 and .3 switched off)

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  Miod Vallat
  miodrag@ifrance.com