Re: tlug: SPARC floppy drives..?

["Andrew S. Howell" <andy@example.com>]

>>>>> "Scott" == Scott Stone <sstone@example.com> writes:

    Scott> The other day, while waiting for CDs to burn, I was staring
    Scott> intently at this SPARC/2 that I got at the tlug auction in
    Scott> October.  It suddenly dawned on me that there's no floppy
    Scott> drive in it!  I would have felt silly putting a disk in the
    Scott> hole just to have it fall down onto the bottom of the case
    Scott> :)

    Scott> Anyhow, I can't do anything with it until I get a floppy
    Scott> drive for it.  Does anyone know where I can buy one and how
    Scott> much they cost?  Internal floppy disk, sparc/2...?

I would have thought that you boot boot it across the net. I've never
done an install that way, but my IPX does just that when it boots the
Gaijin's slxt package. It boots from an x86 Linux RH 5.0 system
( Someday it will be a Turbo Linux sytems, when I get the time :))

Andy
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