How do I stop a Sparc 1 booting from the network?

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2 total messages Started by Allan Schweitz Wed, 30 Jul 1997 00:00

#878

Author: Allan Schweitz
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 1997 00:00

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 I recently got an old Sun Sparc 1 with Solaris on it. Stand alone it boots
fine but when I connect it to the network it tries to boot from the network.
How can I stop it booting from the network?

Thank you in advance for your advice.

Allan Schweitz
allans@infosup.nl

Re: How do I stop a Sparc 1 booting from the network?

#879

Author: Karl Mumford
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 1997 00:00

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Try setting boot-device=disk in the eeprom.


Allan Schweitz <allans@infosup.nl> wrote in article
<5rmuog$o06$1@news2.xs4all.nl>...
>  I recently got an old Sun Sparc 1 with Solaris on it. Stand alone it
boots
> fine but when I connect it to the network it tries to boot from the
network.
> How can I stop it booting from the network?
> 
> Thank you in advance for your advice.
> 
> Allan Schweitz
> allans@infosup.nl
> 
> 
> 
>

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