Re: floppy installation & NVRAM

> On Oct 25, Bill Jonas scratched in indelible ink : > Hmm, I don't know about a floppy, but I've net-booted a Sparc that had a > bad NVRAM chip. This was after setting the hostid and MAC address > following the instructions at > . > It

Re: floppy installation & NVRAM

On Wed, Oct 25, 2000 at 08:43:33PM -0400, John Anderson wrote: > I just acquired a SparcStation 2 which needs a new NVRAM chip. Would a > bad chip interfere with the computer booting from a floppy? I prepared a > boot floppy (for Sparc) from an Intel based machine and it displays the > following

floppy installation & NVRAM

I just acquired a SparcStation 2 which needs a new NVRAM chip. Would a bad chip interfere with the computer booting from a floppy? I prepared a boot floppy (for Sparc) from an Intel based machine and it displays the following message on the screen: boot: Uncompressing image... IDPROM: Unknown fo