[rescue] All this talk of X Terminals has me wondering...

[Harri Haataja]

On Sun, Jul 28, 2002 at 09:21:35AM -0500, Eric Dittman wrote:
> > Netbooting is good. Netbooting is your friend. But never, never,
> > never try to netboot a system that does not use BootP or DHCP from a
> > Linux system.
> > Early* SUN machines netbooted by using reverse ARP, which is one of
> > those things that works on Linux until you try to use it. 
> Damn, I guess booting that X-terminal using rarp from my Linux box was
> an illusion.

So what's difficult in using rarp?

I believe netbooting NetBSD requires it and I've done it many times.
rpc.bootparamd is a whole other problem.

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