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- To make it possible to boot a sprite host from a unix machine (in this
- case ginger), you must put two soft links for the host's internet address into
- the unix machine's /tftpboot directory. These links will point to the boot
- program for the host. For example, for allspice to boot from ginger, we take
- its internet address, 128.32.150.27, and create the following links:
-
- 8020961B.SUN4 -> sun4.md/netBoot
- 8020961B -> sun4.md/netBoot
-
- Each two digits of the link name correspond to the hex value of the digits
- between the decimal points in the internet address. They must be all capitals.
-
- This means that tftpboot will download the sprite netBoot program to the host
- as its boot program. The example above is for a sun4. For a sun3, the links
- would be made to sun3.md/netBoot instead. The kernel found by the boot
- program will be relative to the /tftpboot directory. So to boot the kernel
- called "new" on a sun4 sprite host, you must find the files "netBoot" and
- "new" in /tftpboot/sun4.md in order to boot "sun4.md/new."
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