[SunRescue] Re: Sun 2/120 Support for NetBSD

[Michael Thompson]

>I noticed on the sunhelp.org page that NetBSD is possibly going to support
Sun-2's.
>Does anyone here besides me have a Sun-2?  I have the OS somewhere
>on cyprus (my webserver), but I never figured out how to write tapes, and
>I don't have a SCSI controller on my Sun 2/120.
<snip>
>Paul

NetBSD 1.5.1_BETA is available for the Sun2. I have been running NetBSD 1.5
on my 2/120 for several months and am in the process of upgrading to 1.5.1.

You can run diskless, but you will need a Sun2/Sun3 machine or another
NetBSD machine as a server. The server needs to supply the secondary boot
to the 2/120 over the net using Sun nd protocols. The ndbootd daemon in
SunOS can do this or the sunndd program can do this on a NetBSD server.



Michael Thompson
E-Mail: M_Thompson at IDS.net