Hi !

On Mon, 15 Jan 2001, Brian Hechinger wrote:
[lots of offtopic stuff for the port-vax-list :)]
> how do you skip tftp?  how do you get the kernel on the machine in the first
> place?  tftp may be old fashioned, but it serves it purpose, small enough that
> you can very easily fit a tftp client in ROM.

NetBSD knows about booting via such modern things like DHCP and NFS. It's the
most comfortable way, because if you use NFS root-fs, it's a good idea, to use
the fs to boot the same way.

...Michael

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