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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!daffy!uwvax!uwm.edu!lll-winken.llnl.gov!ames!cnn.nas.nasa.gov!lestat.nas.nasa.gov!thorpej From: thorpej@lestat.nas.nasa.gov (Jason R. Thorpe) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: sun Date: 7 Jul 1995 20:55:25 GMT Organization: Numerical Aerodynamic Simulation Project - NASA Ames Lines: 19 Message-ID: <3tk6vt$e64@cnn.nas.nasa.gov> References: <1995Jun29.145759.392@rwsys.wimsey.bc.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: lestat.nas.nasa.gov In article <1995Jun29.145759.392@rwsys.wimsey.bc.ca>, RW <rw@rwsys.wimsey.bc.ca> wrote: >We wound up with a sun with a single empty hard drive.. No >os. We run netbsd on some intel boxes but would like to >put it on the sun as well. Does anybody have any sugestions >on how we might install netbsd on the empty drive without >any os to bootstap from? Is is a Sun 3 or Sparc? One thing you could do is boot is diskless initially. The Sun 3 now supports writing a Sun format disklabel to the disk. I don't think the Sparc does...The Sun 3 also has working netboot and ufsboot code (ufsboot doesn't work on 3/280 last I heard). -- Jason R. Thorpe thorpej@nas.nasa.gov NASA Ames Research Center Home: 408.866.1912 NAS: M/S 258-6 Work: 415.604.0935 Moffett Field, CA 94035 Pager: 415.428.6939