Re: installing on O2

On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 09:46:00PM +0100, Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
> So is it ok to just burn the sgi install cd with e.g. "cdrecord"?

Yes.

> Is there a problem with my cdrom drive?

Yeah - or maybe it just doesn't like this CD-R.

> 3. For installation on disk via network the above
> page states one needs to set up DHCP and tftp.
> However, these guidelines (not sgi specific) state
> that rarp or bootp can be used instead of DHCP:
> 
> http://www.netbsd.org/docs/network/netboot/tftpd.html
> 
> Is that the case that for sgi only DHCP can be used?

I don't know, but dhcp is 10 times easier to setup than bootp/rarpd.

Martin