[geeks] Can I netboot a SPARCclassic from Win95 box?

[Sandwich Maker]

" From: Jochen Kunz <jkunz at unixag-kl.fh-kl.de>
" 
" On Tue, 8 Nov 2005 11:21:09 +0100 (MET)
" "Arno Kletzander" <Arno_1983 at gmx.de> wrote:
" 
" > We already had this thread some months ago and it was declared that
" > the problem was the unavailability of a machine capable of answering
" > RARP requests on my network.
" >
" > I couldn't find a server that would easily integrate into the
" > environment I'm used to
" Arno, why don't you just bite the bulltet and use a *BSD box for the
" netbooting stuff? There is an excellent netboot HOWTO on the NetBSD web
" site.
" 
" I don't say that you should use the BSD machine for actual developement,
" use it as a netboot appliance. Install SAMBA on the BSD box to export
" the netboot directory to your Win95 machine. You can do everything on
" your Win95 machine, when you got a bootable image simply copy it to the
" netboot share and fire up your target. Once instaled you don't have to
" touch the BSD machine anymore.
" 
" If rarp is the only missing thing on Win95 you can use a BSD machine to
" do just the rarp and everything else with Win95.

i just have to jump in here one more time and mention windows sfu 3+.
you can install it under nt4 and even 3.51 iirc.  do your windows
development on the win32 side.  run the netboot env on the interix2.2
side; it'll compile and run any posix-compatible freeware and likely
already comes with tftp, bootp/dhcp, and rarp.  iirc sfu3.5 is current.

nt isn't free, but sfu is.  also i've long heard the interix layer on
the nt kernel is much more stable than the win32 layer, and now i hear
that sfu3 is to be included in the next windows release...
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