Subject: Re: Installation Instructions for Netbooting
To: Hubert Feyrer <hubert.feyrer@informatik.fh-regensburg.de>
From: grant beattie <grant@grunta.com>
List: port-sparc64
Date: 08/31/2001 10:28:52
On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 02:31:45AM +0200, Hubert Feyrer wrote:
> On Thu, 30 Aug 2001, matthew green wrote:
> > is that the loader requested by TFTP doesn't have the architecture
> > appended to it. Perhaps the installation instructions could be updated to
> > mention this (2nd paragraph in "Installing NetBSD by using a diskless
> > setup").
>
> I can confirm that for a SunFire 280R. ;)
This has always been the case on Ultra's. I was sure this was already
mentioned somewhere in the INSTALL document, plus there's a section
here
http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/sparc64/faq.html
which describes netbooting.
g.