Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Most people don't want a UFS filesystem laying around, nor require
burning a CD to do this though.
Right, but is it actually impossible to boot it otherwise? I didn't
try very hard.
On Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 11:48:54AM +, Dave Love wrote:
Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Most people don't want a UFS filesystem laying around, nor require
burning a CD to do this though.
Right, but is it actually impossible to boot it otherwise? I didn't
try very hard.
Most people don't want a UFS filesystem laying around, nor require
burning a CD to do this though.
Right, but is it actually impossible to boot it otherwise? I didn't
try very hard.
Neither did I. I have enough systems sitting around to justify this waste.
Ingo
Brian Macy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I just noticed the flash module. I don't see any instructions on how
to use it (just dd an image?) or on how to extract the image from the
sun supplied upgrade executable.
Is it actually necessary to do that? I remember concluding it looked
as if you
Actually, it's by no means necessary to extract anything, and you don't even
need SILO. Just type
boot diskN /flash-update-XYZ
when flash-update is on the first slice and on a filesystem readable by OBP
readable.
I tend to have a small external disk with just the flash updates lying
around for
On Sat, Nov 02, 2002 at 03:17:05PM +0100, Ingo T. Storm wrote:
Actually, it's by no means necessary to extract anything, and you don't even
need SILO. Just type
boot diskN /flash-update-XYZ
when flash-update is on the first slice and on a filesystem readable by OBP
readable.
I tend to
I don't have Solaris installed. I believe I tried booting it from SILO
and also tried netboot but neither worked.
Brian Macy
Dave Love wrote:
Brian Macy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I just noticed the flash module. I don't see any instructions on how
to use it (just dd an image?) or on how
Ben,
the flash utility is in the flashprom package on vger cvs.
Do you have access and can you put it somewhere, or do I need to send
it to you?
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Thanks... assuming I can hunt down the cvs repository/login information
it shouldn't be a problem.
Brian Macy
Eddie C. Dost wrote:
Ben,
the flash utility is in the flashprom package on vger cvs.
Do you have access and can you put it somewhere, or do I need to send
it to you?
On Sat, Nov 02, 2002 at 06:09:27PM +0100, Eddie C. Dost wrote:
Ben,
the flash utility is in the flashprom package on vger cvs.
Do you have access and can you put it somewhere, or do I need to send
it to you?
I can get it and make it available. I meant to have this added to our
sparc-utils
On Fri, Nov 01, 2002 at 08:58:50AM -0800, Brian Macy wrote:
I just noticed the flash module. I don't see any instructions on how to
use it (just dd an image?) or on how to extract the image from the sun
supplied upgrade executable.
I can't recall where the program is to write flash (I used
Thanks... I actually searched google (linux ultra sparc flash) and found
practically nothing. I'll look again.
Brian Macy
Ben Collins wrote:
On Fri, Nov 01, 2002 at 08:58:50AM -0800, Brian Macy wrote:
I just noticed the flash module. I don't see any instructions on how to
use it (just dd
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