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Re: Sparc netinst



Hi Tennis,

Make sure rarpd is running on your network so your ss20 can get an IP.

Also, you will need to net boot off a tftpboot.img, not a .iso. You'll
probably have to rename the tftpboot.img to something different, which
is machine dependant. I just looked through the logs to see what my
machine was asking for and changed the name of tftpboot.img to that.

I did this all under linux, not win2k. No good reason why it shouldnt
work... as long as your tftpd and rarpd implementations are standards
compliant ;-)

Leith

Tennis Smith wrote:
Hi,

I'm trying to netinst to an ss20.  I have a tftp server setup on a win2k PC
(funny huh?) and I'm trying to netboot with your latest sparc-mini.iso.
Unfortuntely, it doesn't seem that the OpenBoot values for this scenario are
very well documented. I looked in the Debian docs and none of the variants
on this worked for me.

Is there a better writeup somewhere of how to do this? Also, has anyone ever
managed to get this to work from a win2k machine?

TIA,
-Tennis






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