[ILUG] Sparc rescue

[Paul Jakma]

On Wed, 2 Mar 2005, John Madden wrote:

> I've picked up a Sparc Classic with a Solaris install already on 
> it. I was going to wipe and rebuild it with Sol 10, but the 
> hardware doesn't support it.

You mean: S10 doesnt support the hardware, surely? ;) Sun4m support 
was finally dropped in S10. Only (most) sun4u hardware is supported - 
200MHz+ UltraSPARC machines are relatively cheap on ebay.

> So, does anyone know of a netboot sparc 32 rescue linux distro with ufs
> support?

Don't know about linux, but what about NetBSD sparc? They have 
netbootable images on their site, and NetBSD should support reading 
Solaris UFS filesystems (be sure to mount read-only..).

regards,
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