On Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 10:17:49AM -0500, David Woyciesjes wrote:
   >
   > 	IIRC, it's similar to my LX, the little lunchbox case, right? Well,
   > you should be able to grab the two install floppies, and boot from those.
   > Hopefully you have it on a LAN, connected to the internet. Then you don't
   > need to worry about burning a CD...

This would be fine, if the floppy drive worked, but Hasan has indicated
that it doesn't.

A couple of other options are...

1. netboot.  This is also tricky because your idprom is dead, giving
   you a mac address of ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff.  The easy fix is to buy a
   new NVRAM.  Alternatively, you can read the NVRAM faq (see link
   below) and set your MAC address to a valid number.  Note that you
   will lose the setting when you power-off the machine, but it's
   enough to bootstrap you.  The link:

	http://www.squirrel.com/squirrel/sun-nvram-hostid.faq.html

   Once you've got a valid MAC addr, you can netboot from any other
   box capable of offering rarp, tftp, bootparam and nfs services -
   SunOS, *BSD or Linux would do.

2. Remove the hard drive from the IPC, connect it to another computer
   that can understand and write to a BSD-style partition table.  Put
   the NetBSD miniroot on the drive, along with the required BSD sets,
   then bring the disk back to the IPC, boot into the miniroot &
   complete the installation.


> 	I'm waiting for other OSes to finally come around to doing installs
> via FTP...
> 
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> ! -----Original Message-----
> ! From: Hasan Azam Diwan [mailto:diwanh@cs.rpi.edu]
> ! Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2001 10:07 AM
> ! To: port-sparc@netbsd.org
> ! Subject: IPC issues
> ! 
> ! 
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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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