Message-ID: <958398973B4A0343A904C2A4157EDEA5396C1D@ATLEXC01.neteffectcorp.com> From: "Jardina, Jason" <jjardina@neteffectcorp.com> Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2000 13:04:31 -0500 Subject: RE: [suse-sparc] BootDisk
One method that worked for me was to setup a tftp server on my PC, add the
rarp entry on PC using the hardware address of my Sparc box and the ip that
I want to assign to it.
rarp -s <ipaddress> <hw address on sparc>
In the PC's tftpboot directory I placed the tftp64 image, from the first cd,
with a logical link to the ip address. The logical link has to be named the
ip address you want to give your Sparc in a hex code conversion. Here is a
simple perl script to help you out, this will give you the converted name of
the link.
perl -e 'printf "%02x"x4. "\n",127,0,0,1;'
Replace the loopback address of 127,0,0,1 to the ip address that you want to
assign in your rarp statement.
At your Sparc ok boot prompt, Stop-A, type boot net.
Your sparc box will then get its ip address from your pc and begin the
initial boot up using the image on the tftp server.
When your sparc box boots up, use ftp to your pc to do the installation. I
have left out setting up your ftp server for installation, tftp on your pc,
networking your pc and unix box, etc. You should be able to figure this out
on your own with help from the web. I suggest Linux Docmentation website.
These are the major steps. Hope this helps!
-----Original Message-----
From: Ian Donaldson [mailto:ian@dsd-tech.co.uk]
Sent: Wednesday, November 01, 2000 12:11
To: suse-sparc
Subject: [suse-sparc] BootDisk
I have just received the SuSE CD's from my local user
group(www.belfastlinux.cx) and am looking forward to installing SuSE on
my newly acquired Sparc 5. Just one question as the installation
instructions are in German how do I make an installation BootDisk. I need
the disk as I have no CD in my Sparc and have to do(hopefully) a NFS
install from from my PC(Running SuSE 7).
Regards Ian Donaldson
Newtownards
Northern Ireland
ian@dsd-tech.co.uk
ian@ards.freeserve.co.uk
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