Network boots and BIOS Re: [LUG] Debian masterclass in Devon??

[Simon Waters <simon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Dave Trudgian wrote:
|
| It's a shame this didn't happen a year ago. Back then I had and
played
| around with an SGI Indy and Sun SparcStation 10 & 20 which all
received
| Debian.

Call me cynical, but putting Debian on SparcStations is pretty
minority activity. Solaris may not be free software (yet!), but I
don't see people paying for new certified hardware throwing it out
just yet.

| It was interesting learning about booting them from a network
| with rarp and tftp etc and installing using my PC as a serial
console.
| The SGI and SUN PROM monitors are so much more featureful and complex
| than the PC BIOS and all the machines had their own little quirks.
All
| old gear, but different, interesting and fun whilst I had it.

We use to reprogram the SUN Openboot stuff, it was vaguely forth
like language as I recall.

But the poverty of the BIOS is why I think the novel Debian install
methods are of interest. Okay it is not quite interrupt boot and
type "net boot install", but it is getting close.

Damn did I forget to include FAI in my list of things I want to try.....
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