From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Mar 27 00:53:05 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id AAA07995 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 27 Mar 1996 00:53:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id AAA07886 for ; Wed, 27 Mar 1996 00:51:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id KAA14325; Wed, 27 Mar 1996 10:50:51 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id JAA29702; Wed, 27 Mar 1996 09:50:51 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.4/8.6.9) id JAA19973; Wed, 27 Mar 1996 09:30:11 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199603270830.JAA19973@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Diskless Sun 3/80 (Xkernel) To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Wed, 27 Mar 1996 09:30:10 +0100 (MET) Cc: regnauld@tetard.frmug.fr.net Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199603270725.IAA28089@keltia.freenix.fr> from "Ollivier Robert" at Mar 27, 96 08:25:37 am X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Ollivier Robert wrote: > It seems that J Wunsch said: > > to configure your entire network to do 4.2BSD broadcasting if this is > > what you want (or what you need since you can't convert the Sun's). > > > > Perhaps time to put NetBSD on your Sun? ;-) > > Hard as Philippe use Xkernel to boot the Sun diskless... How can you > install NetBSD without a local disk ? No idea. I seem to remember some ``diskless FAQ'', but i'm not well- informed regarding NetBSD. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)