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Date:      Wed, 27 Mar 1996 04:21:16 -0600 (CST)
From:      "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net>
To:        Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Diskless Sun 3/80 (Xkernel)
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.92.960327041754.29967A-100000@sasami>
In-Reply-To: <199603270725.IAA28089@keltia.freenix.fr>

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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?

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