> 
> I was curious if it will be possible to netboot a 11/750? It looks like I may
> not be able to get somebody nearby to be able to write me out a dist. tape, or
> to write out a FS on to my drives. So it seems that The only way I may be able
> to to get a non vax to netboot me if it is possible.
>  So I am interested in what needs to be on the other computer to be able to
> netboot, besides a ethernet card that can talk to mine.
> 
I've been thinking about this as a simple solution to make initial boot,
and there are also support in some other ports for netbooting.
What is needed is:

-- support in kernel for root on NFS (not so difficult i think)
-- standalone ethernet card routines for booting that can fit 
   on an TU58 (more difficult to write).

If /boot can be under 60K in size then life is much more easy when
doing normal boot. In that case we must write a special netboot program
that can for example be used on TU58 or floppy or something. It is
a very good way to do initial boot, but I won't look at it this week :-)

-- Ragge