Re: [TCLUG:11079] Sparc bootdisk

[Yaron <jethro@yaron.org>]

  Hi,

On Sat, 11 Dec 1999, Rodney Ray wrote:

> Does anyone know how to make a bootdisk for a spark 2. I currently have
> ( I think) Solaris 2 running on this thing , but when I got it most of
> the directories were on a network so I can't do ----. I downloaded
> Redhat 6.1 for sparc on a local pc but ( not to informed on suns ) I'm
> not sure how to make a boot disk that will let me connect to my other
> pc.

You can make your PC a tftp server, and run 'boot net' on the SPARC, and
thus install without any physical media on the SPARC. Read 'man tftp' and
'man bootp'.

-Yaron


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