From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Mar 27 02:21:19 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id CAA16424 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 27 Mar 1996 02:21:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from sasami.jurai.net (root@sasami.jurai.net [205.218.122.51]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id CAA16418 for ; Wed, 27 Mar 1996 02:21:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (winter@localhost) by sasami.jurai.net (8.7.4/8.7.3) with SMTP id EAA02627; Wed, 27 Mar 1996 04:21:16 -0600 (CST) Date: Wed, 27 Mar 1996 04:21:16 -0600 (CST) From: "Matthew N. Dodd" X-Sender: winter@sasami To: Ollivier Robert cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Diskless Sun 3/80 (Xkernel) In-Reply-To: <199603270725.IAA28089@keltia.freenix.fr> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 27 Mar 1996, Ollivier Robert wrote: > Hard as Philippe use Xkernel to boot the Sun diskless... How can you > install NetBSD without a local disk ? Quite easily. Suns use bootparamd and tftp to boot. I had mine running for 2 weeks using NFS while I waited for my disk to be ordered/delivered etc. BTW, has the manpage for bootparamd and bootparams made it to current/stable yet? | Matthew N. Dodd | winter@jurai.net | http://www.jurai.net/~winter | | Technical Manager | mdodd@intersurf.net | http://www.intersurf.net | | InterSurf Online | "Welcome to the net Sir, would you like a handbasket?"|