[slackware-sparcdevel] network boot install

From: Phil Howard (phil@ipal.net)
Date: Fri Apr 20 2001 - 00:57:23 PDT


I thought I once saw a document that gave a step by step on doing
a network boot install for Sparc. But now I scrounge around and
I just can't seem to find it. Maybe I'm not giving enough time
for it, but I'm really hectic at the moment with a lot of things
back on the plate.

I swapped HD's on my Sparc 5 putting in the one I thought had
OpenBSD on it but nothing boots now. I was going to re-install
over it anyway, so it doesn't matter. The big issue right now
is the CDROM drive apparently died. It opens and closes OK,
but it always gives an error trying to boot from it and it's
the same error whether there is a disk or not (I forget what
it was as that was 3 weeks ago).

Anyway, I thought it was a HOWTO that decribed what steps I need
to do to set up the right servers on another machine, with what
data goes where, and what to do on the boot prom to bring it up.
Unfortunately, I'm not going to have a lot of time to be fumbling
around with this, jumping from document to document to figure out
what some other document is telling me to do, and I'm sure I saw
an all-in-one somewhere while I was doing the port testing before.
Maybe it was posted, or maybe it was a file on the FTP site, but
I can't find it now.

Any ideas?

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