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Re: Booting Problems from Install CD



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On Tue, 10 Jun 2003, William Sherwin wrote:

> I am attempting to install Debian 3.0 on a Sparc IPX that lacks a floppy
> drive.  As I don't have root access to any other Sparcs, I cannot setup
> a TFTP server for boot net.

Oh yes you can. There's nothing platform specific about TFTP. Just set up TFTP
and rarpd on some unix/linux box and serve up the files. I think I even remember
hearing about someone using tftp from an NT box, or maybe that was something
else.

Do you not have another *nix box to install from?

bye

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