[geeks] Netbooting Sun-3/60

[bertrand hutin]

Old Suns needs rarpd bootparamd
all this is present in all Solaris versions
may be done on Linux too, at least for rarpd
but to run a 3-60 you need SunOs for Motorola 68020...


On 04/10/2016 04:03 AM, Mouse wrote:
>> 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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