Yahoo. I got it working after bashing my head against the wall a few
times. I had to have xp format each disk before I could write data
again, buthey it worked.
Rob Wultsch wrote:
> Backstory:
> My sun sparcstation boots fine from 3.5" disk but refuses to boot from a
> cdrom. This would not be problematic except that it somehow destroys the
> disk as it ejects it. Neither windows or linux can do anything with the
> disk after the sparcstation has had its fun.
>
> So I am relegated to using rapd to boot the machine so that I can make
> one change so that it will be able to boot.
>
> What I am unsure about so far:
>
> 1. How do I determine which of eth0 or eth1 is my pcmcia wireless card
> and which is my cat5 connect on my laptop?
>
> 2. For my /etc/ethers which in a manual
> (http://www.netbsd.org/Documentation/network/netboot/rarp.html#linux) is
> listed as needing:
>
> 2# Create an /etc/ethers file, listing your client:
>
> #/etc/ethers
> CC:CC:CC:CC:CC:CC client
>
> 3# Add your client to the /etc/hosts file:
> 192.168.1.10 client
>
> so is the sun machine the client?
>
> 3. Not sure yet but I know I will have one.
>
>
>
> .-.
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