Re: anyone have a theory why net boot of a SPARC20 hangs?

[Mouse <mouse%Rodents-Montreal.ORG@localhost>]

> [...] but really a bootable SPARC20 is a museum piece anyways.

Really?  I use one routinely (it's my main screen-&-keyboard).

> The QEC type quad cards are pretty and likely very rare.

I've got a spare qec I can pop into a 20 and see if I can figure out
what it takes to make netboot work; it'd be an old kernel, but if
that'd help anyone I can do it.  ("Old kernel" meaning 1.4T, 4.0.1, or
5.2, or if whoever wants it is willing to wait a while, 1.6.2.)

> I am not entirely thrilled with the notion of a SPARC20 doing compile
> of anything [...]

It's fine, provided you don't use too bloated a compiler (or, more
generally, system).  That's one of the reasons I'm still using 1.4T on
my NetBSD/sparc machines.

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