[SPARCbook] SB2 diskless?

Nickolai Zeldovich kolya at zepa.net
Thu Aug 26 11:23:47 CDT 1999


On Fri, 27 Aug 1999, Stuart Duncan wrote:

> Does anyone know if the SPARCbook2 can be booted as a diskless
> workstation?
> Also, does anyone know what the boot flags do?

Yes, you can boot it over the net just fine. Infact I used 'boot net' to
install Solaris. You should have a rarp server answering queries and a
tftp server that has a bootable image in /tftpboot. Use tcpdump to see
what's going on.

-Nickolai Zeldovich.







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