[rescue] Sparcstation LX Restoration & Help

Mouse mouse at Rodents-Montreal.ORG
Mon Nov 25 13:10:52 CST 2019


> I did think of the network boot, but never tried an install that way
> with Sunos 4, pretty trivial with Sunos 5.

Pretty simple with 4 too, as long as you're using to (a) wrangling 4 at
all and (b) NFS.  As I recall, it's RARP for an IP, TFTP to get the
first-stage booter, and then that reads the kernel via NFS and away you
go.  Admittedly, it's been some decades since I used SunOS, but that's
how it works with NetBSD and the RARP and TFTP steps are in ROM, so....

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