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From: bzs@bu-cs.bu.edu (Barry Shein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun
Subject: Re: NFS booting code
Keywords: SunOS
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Date: 7 Apr 89 14:29:49 GMT
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boulder!fesk!arch@handies.ucar.edu (Arch Mott):
>> ,,,However, when I talk to non-Sun
>> vendors about their diskless workstations which run NFS they all have the
>> same reply: Gee, we're sorry but Sun has yet to distribute the NFS boot
>> code to us folks with NFS Licenses.

From: jthomp@central.sun.com (Jim Thompson  Sun Dallas SWAN Engineer)
>I can't belive that's true.  Convex licenses NFS from SMI, and *they*
>support booting diskless workstations via the 4.0 scheme.  Diskless NFS
>support is available in Version 7.0 of Convex OS.

I'll second that, at Encore we put up the Sun boot code on the Multimax a
few months ago. You have to be an NDE licensee or something like that,
mostly just a matter of cutting a check and filling out a form.  -- 

	-Barry Shein, Software Tool & Die

There's nothing more terrifying to hardware vendors than
satisfied customers.