Subject: Re: Getting NetBSD onto an IPC.
To: matthew green <mrg@eterna.com.au>
From: Alexander Strauss <strauss@astracom.net>
List: port-sparc
Date: 06/09/2000 15:57:11
matthew green wrote:
> 
> 
>    How does one get NetBSD onto a Sun IPC these days ?  I'm told the floppy
>    driver is broken in -current - the boot.fs's that I've downloaded from
>    snapshots have failed to find the kernel.  If I attempt to boot a 1.4.1
>    or 1.4.2 floppy, it screws up when probing bwtw0 - see PR#10307.  Will
>    a netboot of -current work ?
> 
> i no longer netboot any of my sparcs (my ELC has become a "remote
> office" machine with a disk attached).  but i'd be surprised if
> it was broken...


This week I've booted and installed a SparcClassic over the net with
1.4.2 - worked smoothly without any problems ;-)
-- 
best regards,
Alexander Strauss <strauss@astracom.net>