From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christian Joensson Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2005 08:40:05 +0000 Subject: Re: Flashing of an Ultra2? Message-Id: <5460e33305071101403a794aa7@mail.gmail.com> List-Id: References: <200507091845.j69IjwBL027851@arbas.nms.ulrich-teichert.org> In-Reply-To: <200507091845.j69IjwBL027851@arbas.nms.ulrich-teichert.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org On 7/11/05, Baurzhan Ismagulov wrote: > On Sun, Jul 10, 2005 at 07:45:38PM +0200, Ulrich Teichert wrote: > > You've been right. Only that I had to install Solaris just to get an UFS > > filesystem where I could boot that file from. I just didn't found any > > Linux UFS tools and thought that would be the quickest way of doing it - > > I think that was my first and last Solaris install..... > > One can boot cdrom -s and use mkfs to create the filesystem and copy the > file, without installing Solaris. would you pls elaborate a little on that? I would greatly appreciate something like a HOWTO-Upgrade-Sun-SPARC-PROM :) that is, with a linux system, not a solaris one... but I am not saying I expect that from you, rather that if you could document your experience, eventually someone may pick it up and put a link to it from the http://auroralinux.org web page maybe... that'd be nice to have -- Cheers, /ChJ