Re: [suse-sparc] Re: sparc 5 without floppy network install

From: Joshua Uziel (uzi@suse.com)
Date: Tue Dec 12 2000 - 13:48:23 PST

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    Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 13:48:23 -0800
    From: Joshua Uziel <uzi@suse.com>
    Message-ID: <20001212134823.C23107@gimp.org>
    Subject: Re: [suse-sparc] Re: sparc 5 without floppy network install
    

    * Stephen Gallacher <stephen@udcf.gla.ac.uk> [001212 03:03]:
    > 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?"

    Actually, you don't have to burn the images... just loop mount 'em (as
    long as your kernel has support for doing this). So on any given
    machine, do a:

            mount -o loop suse-us-sparc-7.0-CD1.iso /mnt

    to mount the first CD in /mnt...

    If this doesn't work for you, you can grab the data via NFS (or SMB)
    from linux01.gwdg.de ... lemme know if you need help with that.



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