Re: Help installing on and old SPARC 5
On Tue, 7 Nov 2000, graziano wrote:
> Actually I decided to use a CDROM because I couldn't get my x86 linux
> box to be a tftp server for the sparc. rarpd crashed as soon as the
> sparc tries to boot. And I don't have any other no-x86 box around that I
> can use. What do you use for rarp?
>
Oh no, i've always used plain vanilla i386's.
Okay, I'm dumb. The TFTP booting is not in Hugo's FAQ (though it is an
excellent FAQ, but only if you own a SPARCBook.
It's in the Debian installation instructions,
ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/potato/main/disks-sparc/current/doc/install.en.txt.
section 6.5
It's pretty complete. And it works :)
A typical tftp image looks as follows on my computer:
templestowe:/boot$ la
...
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Jan 29 2000 8002908F.SUN4M ->
tftp32.img
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2112360 Apr 2 2000 tftp32.img
templestowe:/boot$
the funky symlink is the client's IP addr (not its hardware addr) in hex. The
.SUN4M extension should be changed to whatever type of sun you're booting...
...
give it a shot :)
Ari
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