Dave Miner writes:
> Dave Miner wrote:
> > Rainer Orth wrote:
> >> I'd like to know what the current plans are for supporting AI/Indiana on
> >> non-WANboot capable SPARC systems (i.e. OBP before 4.17).
> >
> > There are no plans at this time.
> >
>
> I realize that this was probably unnecessarily terse. I expect that it
> will be possible to boot from the AI ISO image on media and run an
> automated installation (as current work will be adaptable to it), but in
> terms of using NFS-based network booting as is usually done with the 3.x
> OBP's, no, there is no plan to implement it.
ok, I see. Thanks for the clarification. Apart from this, I've learned in
private mail that it is possible to simply load the wanboot program via
tftp and start the installation from there, irrespective of OBP version.
This even works (as expected) on WANboot-capable platforms. Given those
options, it seems to me that the AI requirements are no reason to deprecate
sun4u platforms with pre-WANboot OBPs for Indiana, and we can go ahead with
the fixes for my CR.
Thanks.
Rainer
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Rainer Orth, Faculty of Technology, Bielefeld University
