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From: Torfinn Ingolfsen <torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no>
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Subject: Re: Ultra 1: upgrade OpenBoot?
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On Sun, 31 Oct 2004 15:01:57 +0100
Philip Paeps <philip@freebsd.org> wrote:

> It's fairly simple.  You'll need to set up rarp and tftp on some other
> machine on the network.  Just add something like '172.16.2.123 sunbox'
> to your hosts file, and map the mac address of the box to that ip
> address in /etc/ethers.
> 
> Stick the firmware file into /tftpboot, and call it 'ip-in-hex'.  Just
> run rarpd and inetd (uncomment tftpd) and 'boot net' the Ultra.  Done
> :-)

You were right, and this worked.   :-)    Thanks!
I have written a short article about how to do it here:
http://geekinfo.net/article.php?story=20041101004514224

In case anyone needs this info in the future.
-- 
Regards,
Torfinn Ingolfsen,
Norway