In [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
>>>>> "Stafford" == Stafford A Rau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>>>> "Paul" == Paul Heinlein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> had written:
Paul> [ re installing Debian "sid" on a SunBlade 100 ]
Paul> 3. Then there's some tricky renaming or symlinking that has to be
Paul> done. The Sun's PROM will request a file named after a hex version
Paul> of its IP address. If the SunBlade's IP address were 192.168.1.100,
Paul> then it would request a file named C0A80164. (Older PROM versions
Paul> supposedly added an architecture-specific suffix to that filename,
Paul> e.g., C0A80164.SUN4U, but that's not true for SunBlade.)
Paul> So I symlinked the tftpboot.img to a hex name:
Paul> # cd /tftpboot
Paul> # ln -s tftpboot.img C0A80164
Stafford> Since I'm a lazy sort and don't often feel like doing
Stafford> the conversion, I've cheated by doing a "tcpdump ether
Stafford> host [sparc ethernet addr]" from the tftp server, then
Stafford> started a boot net on the sparc and watched to see for
Stafford> which file it was asking.
--
mailto: (Karl M. Hegbloom) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.microsharp.com
phone://USA/WA/360-260-2066
jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
--
To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
