Re: Onyx network problems

From: Atro Tossavainen (Atro.Tossavainen+news_at_helsinki.finland.invalid)
Date: 07/30/04 

Date: 30 Jul 2004 15:15:13 +0300

"Mark Holford" <markholford@madasafish.com> writes:

> If there is a way of installing IRIX without knowing the ethernet address,
> then I would love to know what it is. I am something of a UNIX newbie, so it
> threw me when I could not find something that everything I have read said
> should be there.

AFAIK, it will be enough to use "setenv netaddr" to set an IP address
in the PROM and to allow that IP address to rsh into the installation
server. You don't need to have a fully working bootp configuration
for the remote installation to succeed. 

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