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First, you could keep trying to find a way to make a ufs boot floppy for linux which the sun machine can read. I wonder, could you check other Linux distributions and see if any claim to support that hardware, and hopefully of any do the would have a way to let you make a boot floppy for it.
I found a wishlist message on Debian yesterday, but it was only a wishlist message.
I don't believe that no one has a mkfs.ufs file up on their website, or that mkfs has no site for downloading.
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Second, if you have a way to get a solaris machine on the same network with this one, you could set it up as a boot server and then boot the voyager over the network. Would it be possible to set up Solaris x86 on a PC on the same subnet with this guy? Setting up a boot server is a little complicated, but you should be able to find the instructions online pretty easily.
Yech. I'd have to wipe Linux (which isn't THAT much of a hardship since it needs a rebuild anyway) and redo the partitions on my PC - unfortunately I don't have enough time to do this. I was hoping to be able to boot from CD over NFS, but until i look into setting NFS up properly I'm left without that option.
So it's back to looking for bootdisks. >.<
BTW google: That boot/root wouldn't be any help, since I can make a boot disk on my own. The problem is the lack of UFS formatting tools that would work with a floppy.