Re: Sun ELC diskless client and i386 Linux server

[Marty Connor <mdc@entity.com>]

I'm not certain, but you might try this URL for information about booting 
Suns as diskless clients (possible Etherboot link candidate?):

  http://www2.gol.com/users/gaijin/Linux/

Here is some text from the page:

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The SPARC-Linux Xterminal Package

The SPARC-Linux Xterminal package allows a diskless, low-memory, SPARC 
workstation to be used as an xterminal. The concept is basically that of 
Seth Robertson's "Xkernel", in that the workstation runs a cut-down, Unix 
kernel and an X-server process, but very little else. This configuration 
enables low-end, limited-memory machines to run X-based applications at a 
speed approaching that of the server. 

It's all Linux! There are no Sun binaries or libraries involved at all. 
The kernel and libraries are derived from the Red Hat 4.2 release and are 
redistributed here under the terms of the GNU General Public Licence 
(please see the file COPYING for details). 

This is very much an alpha release and anyone using the package should 
consider themselves a tester, rather than an end-user. Bug reports and, 
more importantly, fixes, are welcome, as are reports of other systems and 
releases on which this package has been discovered to work. 

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I hope this is helpful to you.

Regards,

Marty Connor

>>Yes, I know, that it's a list for i386-clients, so sorry, but we have 12
>>Sun SparcStation ELC, without HDD.
>>
>>Who have some info:
>>- where I can get info about this mashine,
>>- what need an ELC as boot-file,
>>- how and where he search here nfs-root,
>>- who use a system with PC-Linux server and Sun ELC diskless client?
>>More about our system:
>>Our departement at the University of Pecs have a RedHat 6.0 on an
>>Pentium (amirot.jpte.hu). 
>>We have get 12 mashines without document. 
>>One of the xterminals gets her IP via rarp, he (the ELC) downloads a file
>>(tftpboot.img) from the PC's /tftpboot directory, begins a RedHat
>>install, but I can't say for the xterminal, that he have search an
>>nfs-root on my PC.


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