Little known fact: Decstations support booting by bootp/tftp.
At least I know that the 5000 and the 2100 support it.

-Tom

On Sat, 16 Mar 1996, Mats O Jansson wrote:

> 
> On Fri, 15 Mar 1996 kpneal@eos.ncsu.edu wrote:
> 
> > Oh, sorry, one more question:
> > I've seen people "mop" a DECstation (network boot it). I'm told you
> > can also mop a VAX. Is this a standard rarp song-and-dance, or
> > does it take special software? Can I boot a uVAX II from a Sun 3
> > running StunOS 4.1.1?
> 
> I've written a MOP-loader, but NetBSD/vax and NetBSD/pmax can't use it
> to be booted, yet. To be able to load a NetBSD kernel from any machine
> capable of serving MOP, the image must have a image header in one of the
> formats supported by Digital. To learn my MOP-loader a specific NetBSD
> format doesn't seems to be a good idee, then you have to boot it from
> a UNIX machine.
> 
> The MOP/loader can be found at ftp.stacken.kth.se:/pub/OS/NetBSD/mopd.
> 
> > 
> > XCOMM --------------------------------------------------------
> > XCOMM Kevin P. Neal, Sophomore CSC/CPE     kpneal@eos.ncsu.edu 
> > XCOMM North Carolina State University      kevinneal@bix.com
> > XCOMM --------------------------------------------------------
> > 
> 
> -moj
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Mats O Jansson, CelsiusTech Systems, Jaerfaella, Sweden
> email: maja@celsiustech.se (or moj@stacken.kth.se)
> 

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