>> You should be able to network boot from any stock NetBSD 1.2 machine
>> (in some cases even earlier).  a NetBSD/i386 machine should be fine.
>> You _should_ be able to use other unix machines as well, but a
>> NetBSD is liable to be easier.

> Nice idea, but then again, systems like Linux don't support the BPF
> and that is needed by the netboot-protocol of the HP300's.

Well, BPF isn't needed; all that's needed is a system that can receive
and respond to the protocol.  NetBSD rbootd, as written, needs BPF, but
presumably it could be rewritten to run on top of SunOS /dev/nit or
whatever Linux provides (surely Linux provides _some_ sort of access to
raw Ethernet).

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