Re: NETRA Sparc T4-1 to test with

2018-08-08 Thread Dennis Clarke
On 08/08/2018 11:27 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: On 08/08/2018 05:23 PM, Dennis Clarke wrote: pssst ... there is nothing in the silo.conf of netinst.iso for sun4v and that had me wondering. Why though? sun4v is fully backwards-compatible ... Well hey .. everything else under the

Re: NETRA Sparc T4-1 to test with

2018-08-08 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Wednesday 2018-08-08 16:55, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: >On 08/08/2018 04:44 PM, Dennis Clarke wrote: >> Well yes .. however it is sitting inside a rack in a remote datacenter >> and that makes life a real drag.  Sort of why I like network based >> install processes. >> >> Regardless,

Re: NETRA Sparc T4-1 to test with

2018-08-08 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 08/08/2018 05:23 PM, Dennis Clarke wrote: > > pssst ... there is nothing in the silo.conf of netinst.iso for sun4v and that > had me wondering. Why though? sun4v is fully backwards-compatible, so any sun4u software will also work on sun4v. > regardless .. how the heck to netboot this thing

Re: NETRA Sparc T4-1 to test with

2018-08-08 Thread Dennis Clarke
On 08/08/2018 11:03 AM, Jan Engelhardt wrote: On Wednesday 2018-08-08 16:55, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: On 08/08/2018 04:44 PM, Dennis Clarke wrote: Well yes .. however it is sitting inside a rack in a remote datacenter and that makes life a real drag.  Sort of why I like network based

Re: NETRA Sparc T4-1 to test with

2018-08-08 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 08/08/2018 04:44 PM, Dennis Clarke wrote: > Well yes .. however it is sitting inside a rack in a remote datacenter > and that makes life a real drag.  Sort of why I like network based > install processes. > > Regardless, looking at /boot/silo.conf in the netinst I don't see any > support for

Re: NETRA Sparc T4-1 to test with

2018-08-08 Thread Dennis Clarke
On 08/08/2018 10:14 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: On 08/08/2018 04:08 PM, Dennis Clarke wrote: However it is not really clear how to do that over tftp and nfs. I have a bootp server running and can deliver some bootable image to the machine but the whole sparc64-NETINST iso probably

Re: NETRA Sparc T4-1 to test with

2018-08-08 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 08/08/2018 04:08 PM, Dennis Clarke wrote: > However it is not really clear how to do that over tftp and nfs. I have > a bootp server running and can deliver some bootable image to the > machine but the whole sparc64-NETINST iso probably won't fly here. Doesn't the T4 have USB ports which you

NETRA Sparc T4-1 to test with

2018-08-08 Thread Dennis Clarke
Dear sparc64 folks : Happily I have a NETRA Sparc T4-1 here to test with : Netra SPARC T4-1, No Keyboard Copyright (c) 1998, 2018, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. OpenBoot 4.38.13, 31.5000 GB memory available, Serial #106357246. Ethernet address 0:10