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- From: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu (Charles Hedrick)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: Sun Workstation 2/50
- Message-ID: <Sep.12.14.57.42.1992.4865@athos.rutgers.edu>
- Date: 12 Sep 92 18:57:43 GMT
- References: <15062@mindlink.bc.ca>
- Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.
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- Steve_Goyette@mindlink.bc.ca (Steve Goyette) writes:
-
- Linux will not run on a Sun 2/50. So you need a copy of SunOS. In
- theory you might be able to boot a diskless Sun from Linux, however
- it's going to require some work. You'll need to wait until NFS is
- finished for Linux. Then you'll need several utilities, including
-
- tftpd - should be easily available
- rarpd - should be available
- bootparamd - it's a simple program if you have RPC (which you
- would have to once NFS is done), but I don't know whether
- there's any free version. Only needed for relatively
- recent versions of SunOS
- nd - sun's old network disk protocol, which was used just for
- booting. (This is no longer used by SunOS, but I suspect
- the 2/50 ROM's probably still use it.) This is also a very
- simple protocol, but I don't think it was ever made public.
-
- There are probably a couple of more protocols that I'm forgetting. I
- believe there are some Sun experts who would be able to get all this
- stuff working under Linux, but it's likely to involve some reverse
- engineering. So this is a significant project.
-