I checked with my (sometimes dubious) source and he said that the 
LC/SI could netboot. However that feature never made it out the door. 
It of course required an appleshare server (which could easily be 
faked out on bsd). And of course some way to choose netboot. Perhaps 
an ancient version of the startupdisk had it as an invisible option.

>On Sun, 27 May 2001, Lloyd I Freese Jr wrote:
>
>>   From what I understand (which, admittedly isn't much) it's not
>>  possible. There was a thread called "Mac m68k booting process" from
>>  September of last year that talked about the different problems with
>>  it.
>
>There's a difference between "not possible" and "merely difficult", and
>I'm convinced that this is firmly on the "merely difficult" side of the
>line. ^_-
>
>>  IIRC there was a person in this list a while ago that was working on
>>  it but I can't find his posts in my archive (I assume he gave up).
>
>Try the thread "Installation without MacOS", November 2000 - January 2001,
>specifically the stuff from December onwards.
>
>Which reminds me, is there any documentation on how to use libsa, or is
>this one of those UTSL things?
>
>>  At 9:27 AM +0100 5/27/2001, Matthew Theobalds wrote:
>>  >Whilst we're on the subject of NetBooting and Ethernet cards, is it
>>  >ever going to be possible to boot into NetBSD direct?
>>  >
>>  >Or would such a move require more information from Apple than they
>>  >are prepared to give?
>>  >
>>  >All the best.
>>  >
>>  >Matthew
>>
>>  --
>>
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>>  "Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education."
>>  -- Bertrand Russell
>>
>
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