Re: [SLUG] Need public Linux tftp and/or bootp server

From: Derek Glidden (dglidden@illusionary.com)
Date: Mon Nov 05 2001 - 11:22:43 EST


Mario Lombardo wrote:
>
> Upgrading to Debian's Woody decidely affected my SILO boot loader. I'm
> not sure what to make of this from Debian, but I'm piping down my
> aggrevation for the moment.
>
> In short, does anybody know of a public tftp and/or bootp server that I
> can point to to get a SPARCstation 5 (sun4m) linux kernel so I can at
> least look at my filesystem and/or /etc/silo.conf to see where and what
> my kernel was called. I don't have a CD-ROM or a floppy drive to rescue
> this thing. Also, I'm trying to keep the Sun independent to take care
> of itself like, 'go get the damn kernel yourself if you want to work'
> type of deal.
>
> The Sun machine originally began creating itself from Sun files on a Mac
> on my local network, but my Mac's tftp license, program, and images have
> been deleted.

Perhaps I'm being dense, but do you not have another machine anywhere
you could quickly install some Linux distro and use the tftp/bootp
services from that? (I assume your mac is running MacOS. How
problematic would it be to partition it and install some Mac flavor of
Linux temporarily?)

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