Sten Spans <sten@blinkenlights.nl> wrote:
> On Thu, 23 Jun 2005, Johan A.van Zanten wrote:
> 
> >
> > "Bruce O'Neel" <edoneel@sdf.lonestar.org> wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> Thanks to all that replied.  An ultra II/200x2 is on it's way from
> >> some folks in Germany and when I'm in the US next month I'll pick
> >> up the 2 cheap 300mhz Utrasparc II cpus.
> >
> > Check the machine's firmware when you get it -- the US-II CPUs may need a
> > later revision than the US-Is.  Luckily the Ultra 2 has a Flash PROM, and
> > i think you should be able to download the latest rev. from
> > sunsolve.sun.com (though you will need to be running Solaris to run the
> > updater).
> 
> Or live on the wild side and netboot the flash update ...


 Yeah, that's a good idea! Brian Hechinger also reminded me that the
firmware updater for the Ultra 2s was actually something that ran (had to
run?)  *instead* of the kernel. (As opposed to the bigger servers like the
E 4000 that could update the firmware from Solaris.)

 So as you said, you could netboot it. (Or "boot" it off of a CDROM.)

 -johan