Re: sparc 5 without floppy network install

From: Stephen Gallacher (stephen@udcf.gla.ac.uk)
Date: Tue Dec 12 2000 - 03:03:24 PST

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    From: Stephen Gallacher <stephen@udcf.gla.ac.uk>
Message-ID: <976619004.3a3605fc2d9b5@lenzie.cent.gla.ac.uk>
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 11:03:24 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: Re: sparc 5 without floppy network install

    Quoting Joshua Uziel <uzi@suse.com>:

    > * Stephen Gallacher <stephen@udcf.gla.ac.uk> [001212 02:27]:
    > > I am trying to do a network install of suse to a sparc 5 which has no
    > > floppy drive. I have set up another system as a boot server and
    > > downloaded Joshua Uziel's "floppy32" file from
    > > http://suse.com/~uzi/sparc/
    > >
    > > When the sparc 5 loads the image it says " file just loaded is not
    > > executable". Is there a tftpboot image anywhere for suse 7 (sparc) ?
    >
    > You wouldn't netboot a floppy boot image... there is a netboot image on
    > the root of the CD in the "tftp" directory... the "tftp32.img" file for
    > your machine. Good luck. :)
    >
    Joshua,
    Thanks for your reply, but I should have mentioned that I wanted to do a
    network install without writing cd's just to get the img file.
    i.e. I want to boot the sparc 5 from my boot server, which will only
    have the img file and then once the installation starts I will point
    the system at suse's ftp site for everything else.
    My question should have been "where can I download tftp32.img?"

    Regards,

    Stephen.

    Stephen Gallacher
    Server Systems Support Officer
    Computing Service
    University of Glasgow

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