On Thu, 26 Jun 2003, Peter W Waterland wrote:

> Hi there my trusty IPC scsi hdd failed last week so I decided to
> netboot it from my desktop..
>
> no problem you say, but I am limited to wintel boxes only in the
> network - i have managed to get rarpd and tftpd/bootp and even an
> nfs server for windoze but its all for nought if i cant get a
> bootparamd server!

	If you can burn a copy of the NetBSD Live! cd (from
	ftp.netbsd.org) you should be able to boot a random PC
	from the CD and setup the various daemons without needing
	to touch the disk with windows installed (though you will
	probably want to save the config in case you need to do
	it again :) Not a permanent solution in your case I know...

> Anyone know of anyway around this..the netbsd diskless howto is
> of no use.
>
> I would be grateful for any help on this one :) since I would finally
> love to run my sparc without a very screechy and extremely
> annoying scsi disk..alternatively (though not ideally) anyone know
> anyway to spin down a disk when its not being accessed?

	'scsictl /dev/rsd0c stop' will stop a disk, but its quite
	likely the scsi controller wil not handle that particularly
	gracefully when it wants to access the disk next :)

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