[rescue] installing U2 without CDROM - help please!

Mike Parson mparson at bl.org
Thu Jun 16 14:27:55 CDT 2005


On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 03:11:10PM +0200, Michael-John Turner wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 02:54:51PM +0200, Michael-John Turner wrote:
>> Hmm... I netbooted my Ultra 5 the other night (to upgrade to NetBSD
>> 3.0_BETA), and used the following:
>> - rarpd
>> - ISC dhcpd with bootp enabled
>> - root filesystem exported via NFS
>
> Hate replying to my own mail, but I forgot to include tftp in that list
> (used to load the NetBSD bootloader).

That's the setup I'd like to eventually have.  I tried it once, it
didn't work, at the time I was more interested in getting the OS loaded
than figuring out why it wasn't working, so I reverted back to what
worked in the past.

Some day.

-- 
Michael Parson
mparson at bl.org



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