file-server setup. --> Sun config stuff..

[Steve_Kilbane Steve_Kilbane@cegelecproj.co.uk]

In article <42iefg$gj3@hptemp1.cc.umr.edu>, johns@cs.umr.EDU (John Stone) writes:
> In article <9509051015.AA15050@phantom.cegelecproj.co.uk>,
> Steve_Kilbane <9fans@cse.psu.edu> wrote:
> >A more extreme method was to try installing the CD directly to a Sun running
> >/sparc/9ssfs. However, after that kernel loads via tftp, it doesn't do
> >anything. I'd expected the config: prompt, but it appears to have hung. ^T^Tr
> >and L1-A don't do anything. This was a surprise, because 9ss and 9sscd both
> >work.

> First, you need to be running an SS2, IPX, or one of the other SS2-like 
> Sun4C machines.

Yep. it's an SS2, with 64MB.

> That said, I think I know of one thing to check: 
> 
>   Does your SS2/IPX/...'s disk spin up at power on, or at scsi "start"? 

As far as I know. Also, I've tried:
	- booting as you suggest
	- booting from a power reset
	- booting straight after halting SunOS

with no apparent differences in results.

> If anyone else has explainations for the SCSI and lance errors, let me
> know..

I haven't seen any errors at all. It finishes downloading the kernel,
and That's All She Wrote. :-(

steve
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