[geeks] Can I netboot...

[Phil Stracchino]

Michael Parson wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 02:40:45PM +0100, Arno Kletzander wrote:
>>Okay, that's enough - I'll quit violating the list's coolness
>>threshold for now. Must remember that my own definition of coolness is
>>obviously not dogmatical enough to be adequate here :-(.
> 
> It's not really that your project isn't cool enough for us here, at
> least, I don't really think that's all it.  The core of your problem is
> that the networking stack in Windows 95 just isn't up to the task you're
> asking of it.  Win9x just wasn't a server platform, even XP Home would
> do a better job than 95.
> 
> If you want to do sparc programming and netboot it, you're simply
> going to need a different boot server than an old Microsoft offering.
> Hardware of your vintage isn't going to run newer MS OSes very well,
> and if you insist on sticking with them, you might want to give NT 4.0
> (sp6a?) a shot.  You'll have much more flexibility in doing server-like
> work than 95 is capable of.

Have you considered OpenBSD?


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