On Thu, Mar 23, 2000 at 05:32:00PM -0500, Chad Miller wrote: > > (Since my questions may not betray how little I know of Sun hardware, > I'll tell you straight out: Less than you think.) > > I inherited a largish ultrasparc box, and replaced the motherboard to > get around an unknown firmware password. I can power-on the box, and > after the initial few minutes of diagnostics, at the OpenBoot (3.14) > 'ok' prompt, tell it to 'boot floppy'. > > Incidentally, I 'dd' an image of > potato/main/disks-sparc/current/sun4u/images-1.44/rescue.bin > onto a floopie, and insert it into ``fdthree''.
Very few UltraSPARC's are able to boot from floppies. You'll want to either use the tftp image, or wait till I can get a working CD image available. Ben -- -----------=======-=-======-=========-----------=====------------=-=------ / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=========------=======-------------=-=-----=-===-======-------=--=---'
