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Date:      Mon, 11 Oct 1999 00:22:47 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl>
To:        gallatin@cs.duke.edu (Andrew Gallatin)
Cc:        dfr@nlsystems.com, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: netbooting 3000/400
Message-ID:  <199910102222.AAA03754@yedi.iaf.nl>
In-Reply-To: <14336.62978.110378.325928@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> from Andrew Gallatin at "Oct 10, 1999  4:31:46 pm"

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As Andrew Gallatin wrote ...

I have a reasonably broad collection of f/w cdroms. I'm gonna try the
different versions to see what works and what doesnot. Done that before
for the Jensen so.. 

W/

> Doug Rabson writes:
>  > 
>  > I think Andrew had one netbooting at one time. Perhaps there is some newer
>  > firmware you could try?
>  > 
> 
> I think older might be the direction to go in.  They have a history of
> breaking things in newer firmware revs.  When I did the initial
> support for the TC machines, I was using a 3000/300lx w fairly old
> firmware.  I don't have access to that machine, so I cannot check to
> see what firmware rev it was.
> 
> I did it in August '98 & I'm trying to remember if I used our own
> netboot loader or the NetBSD one.  I suspect the latter, so I think it 
> might be worth trying to load our kernel from NetBSDs netboot loader..
> 
> Sorry to be of so little help,

Well, at least we can be pretty sure there must be an SRM that can do
it..

W/
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