Subject: Re: mopd for Solaris/SPARC 2.x?
To: Mats O Jansson <maja@cntw.com>
From: Jonathan Sturges <jonathan@sprintmail.com>
List: port-vax
Date: 03/20/2001 15:46:18
Mats O Jansson wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, Jonathan Sturges wrote:
> 
> > Hello,
> > I've been off this list for several years and am a little out of touch.
> >
> > I'm getting ready to dust off the few Vaxen I own and would like to be able
> > to netboot them from a Solaris machine.
> > Looking at mopd 2.5.3, it looks like the older SunOS 4.x 'nit' system was
> > supported, but that things weren't updated for SunOS 5.x... probably due to
> > the level of effort required.
> >
> > I was wondering if anyone had a version that will run on Solaris 2.6, or
> > 32-bit Solaris 7 or 8.  I don't know if Matts is even supporting mopd
> > anymore.  :)
> 
> When I have time :-)
> 
> I got one request a month or two ago for Solaris 7 or 8 support. I have a
> Solaris 8 machine at home so one night when I couldn't sleep I started to
> add support for SunOS 5. I think i got as far as a working mopchk which
> could tell me the known interfaces and their hardware addresses. Since
> then nothing has happend...

Cool, a port was started though....
Well, if you do ever finish the port, please drop a note to the list... I'd
love to have a copy!  In the meantime, I've got a Sparc Classic I can blow
the dust off of and probably put NetBSD on.

thanks,
Jonathan