> Any chance that BIOS can do netboot? It's a long shot perhaps, > but I've owned several non-Intel machines of approximately that > vintage that I've successfully netbooted NetBSD onto, for > reasons similar to yours: the other possibilities required > no-longer-functioning hardware. > > regards, tom lane >
Unfortunately, no PXE BIOS option. This was my first laptop and it ran Win98 originally (yep, scary). It wasn't long before I realized I could run a BSD on it. Maybe it's time to realize I can just enjoy a previous great release: NetBSD 5.1. I have compiler tools on it, so still useful. Thanks - Joel