[geeks] Netbooting Sun-3/60

[Cory Smelosky]

I have floppy images of that!

I however have no disks, SCSI enclosure, or SCSI floppy

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> On Apr 10, 2016, at 10:42, Walter Belgers <walter+rescue at belgers.com>
wrote:
>
> On 10 apr. 2016, at 04:03, Mouse <mouse at Rodents-Montreal.ORG> 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;
>
> I tried netbooting SunOS 3.5 from a NetBSD box with nd in 2003. My notes
from
> back then: "It does load the kernel and mounts the root disk via NFS, but
it
> then wants to do network disk mounts. I have no server program that will
> facilitate this (ndbootd only implements the boot stage). In the end, I
> installed SunOS 4.0.3.
>
> I do not know if there is a way to use a single-filesystem layout that
would
> work (as from my notes, the root disk gets mounted via NFS).
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