On Sun, 30 Jul 2000, Gavan Fantom wrote:

> On Sat, 29 Jul 2000, Ben Harris wrote:
> 
> > Recently, I've been playing with the possibility of booting a NetBSD/arm26
> > system properly discless.  This involves using the boot ROM on most
> > Ethernet podules (all the ones I've got bar the AKA25s), and a rather
> > crufty Unix AUN server I wrote a few years ago.  Is anyone else interested
> > in this?  If so, I'll put some effort into cleaning up the server and
> > getting it into the NetBSD tree (or at least pkgsrc), along with some
> > documentation.
> 
> That would be very useful indeed, even for those who want to use RISC OS
> on a mixed RISC OS/UNIX network.

*grin* There is a _reason_ I haven't released that code (much).  As a
general file server, it's appalling.  It just happens to have enough
features to be bootable-from.  It can't currently handle multiple users or
writing to files, for instance.

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Ben Harris                                                   <bjh21@netbsd.org>
Portmaster, NetBSD/arm26               <URL:http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/arm26/>