Subject: Re: Diskless booting MV-II
To: Curt Sampson <cjs@portal.ca>
From: Anders Magnusson <ragge@ludd.luth.se>
List: port-vax
Date: 04/16/1997 10:21:06
> On Tue, 15 Apr 1997, VAX mailing list wrote:
> 
> > If I got hold of a CD with NetBSD, could I mount that on, say, a Linux box
> > and set the Linux box up as a remote NFS boot server, then remote boot the
> > VAX off the Linux box.  Can I do this without a disk on the VAX?
> 
> Yes, you should be able to. I'm not familiar with the MVII, but I
> know that a uVAX 2000/VAXStation 2000 net boots just fine.
> 
Actually; MVII cannot be netbooted yet. You can load the boot program
via mop, but there are no standalone routines for qe ethernet in it 
to load the kernel.  They are going to be written soon, though.

-- Ragge