Subject: IPC issues
To: None <port-sparc@netbsd.org>
From: Hasan Azam Diwan <diwanh@cs.rpi.edu>
List: port-sparc
Date: 11/01/2001 10:07:13
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Ladies/Gents:
	I have received a Sparc IPC that I'd like to make into a router using
NetBSD. The machine has one hard drive with SunOS 4 on it. The CMOS battery is
dead (as witnessed by the Mac address being FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF on bootup). The
floppy drive doesn't work. 
	SunOS 4 has /usr mounted from a second drive (which is inconspiciously
missing from the machine) -- therefore there is no way to boot into the OS
normally. I suppose I could get it to boot single-user mode, but I don't know
enough about SunOS 4 to do so (boot -s doesn't seem to have any effect). 
	My question is: Is there any hope of getting NetBSD (or a similarly
advanced OS) onto the box or am I stuck with it? Thanks for the help!
- --
Hasan =)
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