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From: ian@lassen.wpd.sgi.com (Ian Clements)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk
Subject: Re: TFTP and BOOTP
Summary: recommended sequence
Message-ID: <41382@sgi.sgi.com>
Date: 7 Sep 89 01:10:43 GMT
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In article <Added.EZ1NGsC00UkTMW5U89@andrew.cmu.edu>, kovar%popvax@HARVARD.HARVARD.EDU (-David C. Kovar) writes:
>   My two GatorBoxes boot via tftp from a Sun 386i. Power failure? Just
> wait for the 386i to come up and the GatorBoxes are up and running about
> two minutes later. Very convenient since I manage them from about five
> miles away and would have to drive in if they needed to be rebooted
> with a Mac.

 Cayman recommends that you set the box up to boot from the Mac *first* then
tftp boot second.  This way, you can load the box after having made a change 
on the Mac without having to xfer the file to the tftp host first.

 Btw, GatorBoxes also boot from SGI boxes as well.


	Cheers,

	Ian