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From: Scott Schwartz schwartz@bio...
Subject: [9fans] Plan9 on sparc?
Date: Mon, 04 Jan 1999 01:23:27 -0500

Ralf writes:
| is there anybody out there who is running plan9 on a sparc ?
| I tried to install it, but couldn't find out which file I have to link
| on the bootp server as xxxxxxxx.SUN4C (where the x = hex IP address).

Sparc's want to boot with tftpboot.  You can link the xxxx.SUN4C file
to 9ss instead of sun's bootloader.  If you have an nfs root partition
for your terminals, you can dual boot by just dropping 9ss into / and
then "b 9ss" instead of "b vmunix".  You need an auth/cpu server
before you can talk to the file server.