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by **<jk..** » Sat, 03 Aug 1996 04:00:00

Has anyone attempted net booting with intel 486 clients ?
We are able to download the kernel across using bootp but transfer of
control to the downloaded kernel results in a hang/reboot.
We are attempting this net boot with a diskless kernel.
Also tried to boot the box with boot.bin burnt into an EEPROM.

by **Andrew Whead** » Tue, 06 Aug 1996 04:00:00

>Has anyone attempted net booting with intel 486 clients ?

I have done it with 'Pentium' and '386' clients from a
NetBSD 'Pentium' server. You can find a description and
example files in ~ftp/pub/NetBSD/ports/i386/diskless
on this machine. (wipux2.wifo.uni-mannheim.de)
If the description files are out of date I'd like a
unidiff or contextdiff of any changes that were necessary
to make it work.

The description explains how to boot NetBSD from
an MSDOS-menu in config.sys (MSDOS 6.0) but booting
from a floppy-disk-kernel should work too.

Remember to change the IP-addresses and names if you
use the example files.

Quote:>Also tried to boot the box with boot.bin burnt into an EEPROM.

I've never tried that.

Cheerio
Andrew
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Netboot with Intel 486 clients

Netboot with Intel 486 clients

Netboot with Intel 486 clients