Ultra 1: upgrade OpenBoot?

[Philip Paeps]

On 2004-10-30 10:45:46 (+0200), Torfinn Ingolfsen <torfinn.ingolfsen at broadpark.no> wrote:
> How do I upgrade OpenBoot on a Ultra 1

[...]

> The last one is the network boot method. It seems to be missing detailed
> info about what things I need to set up on a FreeBSD machine in order for
> the Ultra 1 to boot the patch over the network.

It's fairly simple.  You'll need to set up rarp and tftp on some other machine
on the network.  Just add something like '172.16.2.123 sunbox' to your hosts
file, and map the mac address of the box to that ip address in /etc/ethers.

Stick the firmware file into /tftpboot, and call it 'ip-in-hex'.  Just run
rarpd and inetd (uncomment tftpd) and 'boot net' the Ultra.  Done :-)

 - Philip

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