NetBSD/xbox HOWTO - 20070107 1. Burn xbox-boot.iso to a CD-R 2. Extract xbox-rootfs.tar.gz to your NFS server, for example /xbox: tar -C /xbox -zxvpf xbox-rootfs.tar.gz 3. Export /xbox on your NFS server to the client, mapping root to root and allowing writes. On NetBSD, in /etc/exports: /xbox -maproot=root 192.168.10.160 Make sure you update the root NFS server information in /xbox/etc/fstab ! 4. Setup the following in your DHCP server to be passed to the netboot client: host 192.168.10.160 { hardware ethernet xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx; fixed-address 192.168.10.160; option host-name "xbox"; option root-path "/xbox"; next-server 192.168.10.92; filename "netbsd"; } 5. Boot from CD, you should be running NetBSD/xbox shortly. Make sure you tell Xromwell to boot from CD and not the hard disk. 6. Root password is 'xbox' and the regular user 'xbox' password is 'xbox'.