I booted mine off a floppy.  Seems to be easy when stuff is being cranky.
Note that you'll have some problems when working with Catalyst
(cisco) switches, because the switch waits 30s to push packets after
initialization.  Using a cheap hub seems to help.  :)

--
Sean Berry works with many flavors of UNIX, but especially Solaris/SPARC and
NetBSD.  His hobbies include graphics and raytracing.  He drinks coke mostly.
His opinions are not necessarily those of his employers.  

On Thu, 21 Sep 2000, Brad Spencer wrote:

> 
>    I need to get an SS10 running to host a SunOS based C compiler.  The SS1 I
>    have took a hit and is almost rebuilt; however, I've got a SS10 I can use.
>    The problem is getting the SS10 up and running.
> 
>    Booting the miniroot from 1.4.2 didn't work.
> 
>    Booting the miniroot from 1.5_ALPHA2 didn't work.
> 
>    Netbooting from the 1.4.2 distribution hasn't worked.
> 
>    If you are running any version of NetBSD/sparc on a Sun SS10, please let me
>    know how you got it up and running.  I really don't want to go out and buy
>    Solaris for this but I might have to if I can't get NetBSD running.
> 
>    PS
>      I currently have Solaris 7 running on the box but I probably can't use
>    this copy for production use.
> 
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> 
> 
> I have been running a SS10 with a duel Ross 100MHZ cpu module for quite
> some time.  It has run kernels of the vintage 1.4Y [elf and a.out] and
> 1.4ZA and 1.4ZB in the past.  It currently diskless boots to a
> NetBSD/i386/a.out 1.4P system and is running a 1.4Y/elf kernel and
> 1.4Y/elf userland.  I have not tried any of the named 1.5 branch yet.
> 
> I would need to know a few more details about what "hasn't worked" means
> before I could be very helpful.
> 
> 
> 
> 
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