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From: stevens@hpcc01.HP.COM (Stuart Stevens)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: Can other systems boot off HP-UX?
Message-ID: <1670003@hpcc01.HP.COM>
Date: 6 Oct 90 05:09:04 GMT
References: <20373@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU>
Organization: Corporate Computing
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>>   We're considering trying to get a couple NeXTs to boot off of HP-UX over
>>   ethernet.  I don't know much about the boot process for HP-UX, but I
>>   understand it is done with a "bootp" server.  I hear that this is 
>>   proprietary to HP and not designed to support other vendors.
>> 
>>   My question:  Is it worthwhile to investigate the feasability of this,
>>   or is the process so far down in the bits and bytes and ROM and whatnot
>>   that we should just punt now?  If someone has done this, what was involved
>>   and where can we locate a good source for information on the process?

	The NCSA telnet package which runs on MS-DOS machines
	supports bootp and works with HP-UX.  I know the source	
	is available, but I don't know how to get it.  FTP Inc's
	PC/TCP supports bootp.  In the implementations I have seen
	bootp is used to discover the networking information(IP,
	name, subnet mask, gateway...) and tftp is used to 
	download files for configuration or operation.