[rescue] Sun Ultra 1 boot failure

Michael Parson mparson at bl.org
Mon Dec 4 13:14:13 CST 2006


On Mon, Dec 04, 2006 at 02:08:18PM -0500, Brooke Gravitt wrote:
> On 12/4/06, Michael-John Turner <mj at turner.org.za>wrote:
>>
>> Setting up a network boot server with tftp, bootp, rarpd, etc is really not
>> that bad. One of the best investments of time I've made - makes setting up
>> a new machine really quick, and one machine can provide boot services for
>> pretty much every platform. My server runs NetBSD, but I'm sure it's about
>> the same effort to use Solaris or any other OS.
>
> How about a tutorial? I've wanted to do this myself, but never spent
> the time to figure it out. It'd be cool to see the steps involved
> documented by one of the listas'.

This is the set of instructions I followed many moons ago:

http://netbsd.org/Documentation/network/netboot/

Has instructions for more than just NetBSD on the server side.

-- 
Michael Parson
mparson at bl.org



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