[luau] SparcStation IPX

MonMotha monmotha at indy.rr.com
Wed Jul 17 16:00:01 PDT 2002


Eric Hattemer wrote:
> Well, if you ever do get another hard drive, the only OS I could find
> instructions on installing with no CD and no floppy was OpenBSD, I believe.
> It crashed like mad, but I think there's something wrong with my sun
> hardware.  But if you don't have a floppy and need any help loading
> something onto that machine using rarp and bootparamd and all of that kind
> of stuff, I can probably remember.
> 
> -Eric Hattemer
>

My IPX has a floppy drive, and I know NetBSD also can do FTP/HTTP 
installs, and Splack (slackware for sparc) can do NFS.  If I had to, I 
could set up a netboot server, but I'd rather just boot off a floppy 
since it's a one time thing.

--MonMotha




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