Hi,

I've been trying to net boot a couple of machines for a while now and I'm stuck.
I have a Compaq Deskpro setup for net booting using PXE/tftp.

DHCP works fine.
tftp works fine.
PXE works fine.
netbsd does not!

I've pulled down every document and PXE tool I can find nothing has been of
much help other than to confirm the above.

PXE appears to limit the size of download to 32K, so that limits things
to a bootstrap program. using the linux tools I could find and just hoping
they would accept a netbsd image has failed. 

bpbatch scripting works, I can get the script file and interpreter pulled
down onto the machine but fail to get anthing beyond that. I've tried
images of boot floppies and raw images no lock.

one thing Ive not yet tried is to use bpbatch to boot strap a DOS floppy image
with dosboot and a netbsd image for netbooting! Using so many boot straps
does not appear to be the right way to do this.

I noticed FreeBSD has a PXE tool, is the kernel image format the same or
similar enough to try hacking that? 

Is there some undocumented way to prepare a kernel image or some tool I've
missed?

Ive checked the netbsd docs and howtos along with loads of stuff for linux
and Im still at a loss.

Any help very much appreciated.


Simon
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