On Tue, 20 Feb 2001, Guenter Millahn wrote: [sorry for the previous one]
> 1. Can anybody send me a pointer to document/URL where is explained > the Old SPARCstation diskless boot sequence in detail (explanations > here are also welcome ;-) there used to be one at http://geog.ubc.ca/s_linux.html. hm it apparently points to ultralinux.org now, and you find what you need at http://www.ultralinux.org/faq.html, section `booting'. i did use an lx following this info. > 3. Are the Bootproms of the old SPARCs able to generate bootp requests > and to process bootp replies or is RARP/TFTP the only way to map MAC > to IP address for these machines and boot 'em up? iirc (and i may as well not as it was several years ago..) using lx rarp was the way to go. -- [-] So, you're a Ph.D. Just don't touch anything.

