[SPARCbook] SB2 diskless?

[Stuart Duncan]

'boot net'?
Where can I enter that command?  The Tadpole Monitor doesn't recognise
it.
Remember, I have no hard disk in the machine at all.
(I'm also trying to boot using a Linux box as a boot server)

Cheers,
Stuart Duncan


Nickolai Zeldovich wrote:
> 
> 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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