Subject: Re: Question regarding diskless clients.
To: Evan Brewer <dmessiah@silcon.com>
From: Michael Richardson <mcr@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca>
List: port-sun3
Date: 11/08/1999 11:14:45
>>>>> "Evan" == Evan Brewer <dmessiah@silcon.com> writes:
Evan> I am new to the NetBSD world, and have sort of an odd scenario. Ive recently
Evan> setup a diskless sun 3/50 and have it booted with the netbsd-rd boot kernel.
Evan> The next step is installing the base OS, however becuase the 3/50 is diskless
Evan> I am not sure where/how to continue installing. I am assuming I will be
Evan> installing to an NFS mounted root partition? Anyhow any guidance on this
Evan> problem would be quite helpful.
So, once you are satisfied that you have a bootpath, which you do, then you
just extract the sets onto your NFS server.
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