Yahoo. I got it working after bashing my head against the wall a few 
times. I had to have xp format each disk before I could write data 
again, buthey it worked.

Rob Wultsch wrote:
> Backstory:
> My sun sparcstation boots fine from 3.5" disk but refuses to boot from a 
> cdrom. This would not be problematic except that it somehow destroys the 
> disk as it ejects it. Neither windows or linux can do anything with the 
> disk after the sparcstation has had its fun.
> 
> So I am relegated to using rapd to boot the machine so that I can make 
> one change so that it will be able to boot.
> 
> What I am unsure about so far:
> 
> 1. How do I determine which of eth0 or eth1 is my pcmcia wireless card 
> and which is my cat5 connect on my laptop?
> 
> 2. For my /etc/ethers which in a manual 
> (http://www.netbsd.org/Documentation/network/netboot/rarp.html#linux) is 
> listed as needing:
> 
>     2# Create an /etc/ethers file, listing your client:
> 
>     #/etc/ethers
>     CC:CC:CC:CC:CC:CC     client
> 
>     3# Add your client to the /etc/hosts file:
>     192.168.1.10 client
> 
> so is the sun machine the client?
> 
> 3. Not sure yet but I know I will have one.
> 
> 
> 
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Robert Wultsch                   // \\        robert.wultsch@asu.edu
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Don't fear the penguins          ^^-^^                  (602)6927564