[rescue] Sparc OS Install over serial

Mark T. Valites valites at geneseo.edu
Tue Jan 6 19:57:44 CST 2004


On Wed, 7 Jan 2004, Dan Williams wrote:

> 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?
> >
> I can't help you with this, but I'm intrigued as to why ?

Because the boss is trying to tell me I can't and I need to shut him up
somehow.

-- 
Mark T. Valites
Unix Systems Analyst
CIT - SUNY Geneseo
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