On Tue, 7 Nov 2000, graziano wrote: > Actually I decided to use a CDROM because I couldn't get my x86 linux > box to be a tftp server for the sparc. rarpd crashed as soon as the > sparc tries to boot. And I don't have any other no-x86 box around that I > can use. What do you use for rarp? >
Oh no, i've always used plain vanilla i386's. Okay, I'm dumb. The TFTP booting is not in Hugo's FAQ (though it is an excellent FAQ, but only if you own a SPARCBook. It's in the Debian installation instructions, ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/potato/main/disks-sparc/current/doc/install.en.txt. section 6.5 It's pretty complete. And it works :) A typical tftp image looks as follows on my computer: templestowe:/boot$ la ... lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Jan 29 2000 8002908F.SUN4M -> tftp32.img -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2112360 Apr 2 2000 tftp32.img templestowe:/boot$ the funky symlink is the client's IP addr (not its hardware addr) in hex. The .SUN4M extension should be changed to whatever type of sun you're booting... ... give it a shot :) Ari
