Subject: RE: IPC issues
To: 'Hasan Azam Diwan' <diwanh@cs.rpi.edu>
From: David Woyciesjes <DAW@yalepress3.unipress.yale.edu>
List: port-sparc
Date: 11/01/2001 10:17:49
IIRC, it's similar to my LX, the little lunchbox case, right? Well,
you should be able to grab the two install floppies, and boot from those.
Hopefully you have it on a LAN, connected to the internet. Then you don't
need to worry about burning a CD...
I'm waiting for other OSes to finally come around to doing installs
via FTP...
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! -----Original Message-----
! From: Hasan Azam Diwan [mailto:diwanh@cs.rpi.edu]
! Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2001 10:07 AM
! To: port-sparc@netbsd.org
! Subject: IPC issues
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! Ladies/Gents:
! I have received a Sparc IPC that I'd like to make into
! a router using
! NetBSD. The machine has one hard drive with SunOS 4 on it.
! The CMOS battery is
! dead (as witnessed by the Mac address being FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF
! on bootup). The
! floppy drive doesn't work.
! SunOS 4 has /usr mounted from a second drive (which is
! inconspiciously
! missing from the machine) -- therefore there is no way to
! boot into the OS
! normally. I suppose I could get it to boot single-user mode,
! but I don't know
! enough about SunOS 4 to do so (boot -s doesn't seem to have
! any effect).
! My question is: Is there any hope of getting NetBSD (or
! a similarly
! advanced OS) onto the box or am I stuck with it? Thanks for the help!
! - --
! Hasan =)
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