Re: developing on a sparc?

• To: bwitt@arch.sel.sony.com (Brian Witt)
• Subject: Re: developing on a sparc?
• From: Jonathon Earnshaw TIDSWELL <jont@mpce.mq.edu.au>
• Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1999 11:31:01 +1100 (EST)
• Cc: oskit-users@cs.utah.edu
• In-Reply-To: <199901192330.PAA00914@tannoudji.arch.sel.sony.com> from Brian Witt at "Jan 19, 99 03:30:32 pm"
• Sender: owner-oskit-users@fast.cs.utah.edu

The other option would seem to be use a network card with a bios that
will load remote kernels ...

I believe the necessary documentation is in the linux archives ...

- JonT

> The target machines would have hard disks, PCI ether cards (but
> 16-bit ISA is possible) and monitors.  I'd like to boot off the network
> if possible.  Is this covered in the docs?
> 
> I see messages about using LILO and rawrite.  I can write 1.44 meg
> floppies, but don't have LILO on my sparc....   :-)  Would I have
> to install Linux/Freebsd on the targets?  I'd rather not, but doesn't
> seem like a big deal once it is done the first time....
> 

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