Date: Thu, 04 Jun 1998 10:37:24 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Cc: mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith), Nicolas.Souchu@prism.uvsq.fr, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, mbouget@club-internet.fr Subject: Re: tftp in bootp process Message-ID: <199806041737.KAA00808@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 04 Jun 1998 08:21:47 %2B0200." <199806040621.IAA08871@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
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> > NetBSD and never updated. It doesn't describe the (primitive, Sun > > -inspired) NetBSD diskless environment very well, and its applicability > > to FreeBSD is even less. I quote from netboot(8) just for perspective: Actually, this quote is from diskless(8), the place where anyone with a Sun background is going to go. This is the source of my confusion, and this manpage should either be updated or shot. > > In phase 2, the boot program loads a kernel. Operation in this phase de- > > pends on the design of the boot program. (The design described here is > > the one used by Sun and NetBSD/hp300.) The boot program: Sorry about the mixup. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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