Subject: Re: remote booting
To: John F Cuzzola <vdrifter@ocis.ocis.net>
From: John <john@sixgirls.org>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 05/23/2001 23:22:09
> Hi All,
> Is it possible (and documented) to diskless boot a Mac (68K series) into
> an XTerminal (ie: thin client)...
Not really. Short of burning your own ROMs for your ethernet card, which
would involve a bit of m68k assembly, m68k Macs don't netboot.
You could boot off of a small hard drive or CD, have MacOS load the BSD
booter, and have the booter load a kernel that mounts everything via NFS.
You could even boot off of a floppy, which could mount an AppleTalk share,
then boot into NetBSD...
John Klos
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