Re: DECstation 5000/200 questions

"Aaron J. Grier" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.ports.pmax
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 03:46:55PM -0400, Lord Isildur wrote:
> > 3) Is setting up netboot for a pmax as simple as setting it up for,
> > say, a sun4[cmu]? IOW, once I've done it once, it's not a challenge
> > anymore?
> 
> it's simpler, since you dont have to deal with the dumb bootparamd.
> youll need a mopd, a bootpd (or dhcpd), tftp, and NFS. 

you don't need mopd, since pmax can suck down and execute an ecoff
kernel via tftp.

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