[geeks] Netbooting Sun-3/60

[Mouse]

> Is it possible to netboot SunOS 3.x from something that isn't SunOS
> 3.x?

Possible?  Certainly.  It may be difficult, though, since I _think_ 3.x
depended on nd for disk access, and I don't know how documented nd is.
NetBSD has an ndbootd which serves nd in a limited way;
http://www.netbsd.org/docs/network/netboot/nd.html might be worth
reading - it's possible the limitations are because nobody bothered to
write anything more elaborate rather than because there's a real lack
of info.

If 3.x doesn't depend on nd, then it should be fine, since everything
necessary exists in many versions - I'm fairly sure all it'll need in
that case is rarp, bootparams, and NFS (and NFS's support protocols,
such as the RPC portmapper).

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