Subject: Re: Sparc Classic dilemma
To: Patrick Larkin <plarkin@beth.k12.pa.us>
From: Jon Lindgren <jlindgren@espus.com>
List: port-sparc
Date: 06/01/2000 11:21:43
On Thu, 1 Jun 2000, Patrick Larkin wrote:
> The good news is someone gave me a Sparc Classic.
>
> The bad news is that they didn't know the root password.
>
> I'm wondering how I can get NetBSD on this thing. It has no floppy or CDROM
> drive.
If you have access to another unix machine, netbooting the thing is one
easy way (that's how I've always installed on my SS1, SS2, SS5 and IPCs).
Take a look at:
http://www.netbsd.org/Documentation/network/netboot/intro.sun.html
for netbooting info.
Hope this helps,
-Jon
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