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- <sect2 arch="sparc"><title>Booting from NFS</title>
-<para>
-
-To install the system via NFS, simply select
-<userinput>NFS</userinput> for the location of the images and files
-and follow the instructions provided. You will be prompted for the
-<filename>server:/directory</filename> where the images are located.
-
-</para>
- </sect2>
-
-
- <sect2 arch="sparc" id="boot-tftp"><title>Booting with TFTP</title>
-
-&boot-installer-intro-net.xml;
-
-<para>
-
-On machines with OpenBoot, simply enter the boot monitor on the
-machine which is being installed (see
-<xref linkend="invoking-openboot"/>).
-Use the command <userinput>boot net</userinput> to boot from a TFTP
-and RARP server, or <userinput>boot net:dhcp</userinput> to boot from
-a TFTP and DHCP server. Some older OpenBoot revisions require using
-the device name, such as <userinput>boot le()</userinput>; these
-probably don't support DHCP.
-
-</para>
- </sect2>
-
-
- <sect2 arch="sparc"><title>Booting from a CD-ROM</title>
-
-&boot-installer-intro-cd.xml;
-
-<para>
-
-Most OpenBoot versions support the <userinput>boot cdrom</userinput>
-command which is simply an alias to boot from the SCSI device on ID 6
-(or the secondary master for IDE based systems). You may have to use
-the actual device name for older OpenBoot versions that don't support
-this special command. Note that some problems have been reported on Sun4m
-(e.g., Sparc 10s and Sparc 20s) systems booting from CD-ROM.
-
-</para>
- </sect2>
-
-
- <sect2 arch="sparc">
- <title>Booting from Floppies</title>
-<para>
-
-To boot from floppy on a Sparc, use
-<informalexample><screen>
-
-Stop-A -> OpenBoot: "boot floppy"
-
-</screen></informalexample>
-</para><para>
-
-Be warned that the newer Sun4u (ultra) architecture does not support
-floppy booting. A typical error message is <computeroutput>Bad magic
-number in disk label - Can't open disk label package</computeroutput>.
-Furthermore, a number of Sun4c models (such as the IPX) do not support
-the compressed images found on the disks, so also are not supported.
-
-</para><para>
-
-Several Sparcs (e.g. Ultra 10) have an OBP bug that prevents them from
-booting (instead of not supporting booting at all). The appropriate
-OBP update can be downloaded as product ID 106121 from
-<ulink url="http://sunsolve.sun.com"></ulink>.
-
-</para><para>
-
-If you are booting from the floppy, and you seem messages such as
-<informalexample><screen>
-
-Fatal error: Cannot read partition
-Illegal or malformed device name
-
-</screen></informalexample>
-then it is possible that floppy booting is simply not supported on
-your machine.
-
-</para>
- </sect2>
-
- <sect2 arch="sparc"><title>IDPROM Messages</title>
-<para>
-
-If you cannot boot because you get messages about a problem with
-``IDPROM'', then it's possible that your NVRAM battery, which holds
-configuration information for you firmware, has run out. See the
-<ulink url="&url-sun-nvram-faq;">Sun NVRAM FAQ</ulink> for more
-information.
-
-</para>
- </sect2>