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From: human@hpindda.HP.COM (Aaron Schuman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: How can I give users root-like privs. w/o the passwd ?
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Date: 26 Dec 89 22:50:37 GMT
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Frank>	In short, there's not a whisper of a chance of
Frank>	booting your 386i off of the 9000.

Frank>	to boot the Sun off of the HP you would have to
Frank>	have one of these ROMs in the Sun.

Frank>	It's not very likely you would be able to wedge one in.


No, you can't wedge one in, but would you have to?
Frank assumes that you'd boot with the HP protocol,
but couldn't you boot with the Sun protocol?  You'd
need to port Sun's boot protocol from a Sun server
to an HP9000 (a simple matter of software :-).

I don't know anybody who has ever done this port.
I don't know whether it would be easy or hard.
If you try it and you have problems, I can imagine
what they'd say to you at the Western Regional
Response Center.  Something like "You did WHAT?"