I've been "playing" over the last couple of days with booting Sun's Standalone Flash PROM Update Utility over the network using rarp and tftp, to good effect.
As a general question, does anybody know whether the OS can check the state of the write protect/enable jumper (and/or front panel keyswitch as appropriate) for security purposes? -- Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
