Re: Failing to netboot

> On 28 Apr 2025, at 20:53, Valery Ushakov <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Apr 28, 2025 at 13:56:32 +1000, Matt Wallis wrote:
> 
>> No matter what I do though I get “Transfer failed, The file
>> downloaded does not appear to be executable.”
> 
> IIRC, our boot.net fakes an a.out header by prepending:
> 
> SUN_MAGIC_HEADER='\01\03\01\07\060\200\0\07\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0’

Well, the 8.0 boot.net <http://boot.net/> didn’t work, file appears to think they’re real though.
mattw@pie:/srv/tftp$ file boot.net
boot.net: a.out SunOS SPARC executable
mattw@pie:/srv/tftp$ file boot.net.10
boot.net.10: a.out SunOS SPARC executable
mattw@pie:/srv/tftp$ file boot.net.10.1
boot.net.10.1: a.out SunOS SPARC executable

Still poking about.

Matt.