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Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au> writes:
> Keep in mind that older systems probably won't boot over the network
> without a netboot ROM or similar.  The netboot ROM images are (or
> were) in the distribution but aren't much use without an EPROM
> burner.

I believe that in most cases you can dd the ROM image to a floppy and
boot from it.

DES
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