Re: [slackware-sparcdevel] network boot install

From: Phil Howard (phil@ipal.net)
Date: Fri Apr 20 2001 - 03:07:08 PDT


Hank Leininger wrote:

> On Fri, 20 Apr 2001, Phil Howard wrote:
>
> > 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
> [snip]
> > 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.
>
> IIRC there's a shell script and/or READMEs with the netboot stuff on the
> Slackware site. Ah, yup:
>
> http://download.sourceforge.net/pub/mirrors/slackware/sparc/slackware-current/BOOTING.TXT
> http://download.sourceforge.net/pub/mirrors/slackware/sparc/slackware-current/tftpboot/
>
> And/or you may have been thinking of my ramble to the list of what I had
> to do to get a netbootable kernel image (since at the time there wasn't
> a valid one available; I dunno if there's a usable one now):

Well, as usual, my haste to find something causes me to overlook
an obvious place. I do recall reading some ramble about that,
so I'm assuming that was yours.

Thanks.

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