[rescue] Sparc OS Install over serial

Dan Williams dan_williams at ntlworld.com
Tue Jan 6 19:51:31 CST 2004


Mark T. Valites wrote:

>I'm looking for a way to bootstrap and install any modern OS (preferably
>some flavor of linux) to a SS or Ultra class sparc, but only use the
>serial port - no floppy, cd, network, or hard disk to bootstrap from. My
>console does _not_ need to be on the serial port. Googling has only turned
>up ways of using the serial port as concole during install. I was hoping
>there's a way to pull this off from the prom - does anyone know if this is
>possible?
>
>-Mark
>
>  
>
I can't help you with this, but I'm intrigued as to why ?

Dan



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