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FAI Guide (Fully Automatic Installation)
Chapter 8 - FAI on SUN SPARC hardware running Linux


Although FAI is architecture independent, there are some packages which are only available for certain architectures (e.g. silo, sparc-utils). SUN SPARC computers can boot from their boot prompt and don't need a boot floppy. To boot a SUN use:

     boot net:dhcp - ip=::::::dhcp

You have to convert the kernel image from ELF format to a.out format. Use the program elftoaout (mentioned in the FAQ). The symlink to the kernel image to be booted is not the host name. Look at the FAQ at http://www.ultralinux.org for more information and http://www.sparc-boot.org/. . A success report is available at http://www.opossum.ch/fai/ and a HOWTO and a lot of examples can be found at http://toolbox.rutgers.edu/~amurphy/fai.


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FAI Guide (Fully Automatic Installation)

Version 2.4.2, 17 feb 2004 for FAI version 2.5.3

Thomas Lange lange@informatik.uni-koeln.de