Date: Wed, 25 Mar 1998 13:30:13 -0500 (EST) From: Mikhail Teterin <mi@video-collage.com> To: misc@openbsd.org, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Using FreeBSD to install for SparcStation Message-ID: <199803251830.NAA05841@xxx.video-collage.com>
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Hello! I'm facing the following challenge. Inventory: * SparcStation 1 with (circa 1989) with : dead system disk working floppy drive sitting in a remote location * Functional FreeBSD-current system with SCSI and _fast_ (cable-modem) net connection * Clean (used in windoze) 1G SCSI disk (from DEC) * unlimited supply of floppies Ideally, I'd like to download all the neccessary pieces to the FreeBSD host, set up this disk with the entire OpenBSD-2.2/Sparc on it, make it bootable by the SparcStation. Then -- drive to the "remote location", plug the disk into the SparcStation and see it booting. Depending on how carefull I am with my SCSI buses, I will not need to reboot the FreeBSD host. Unfortunately, AFAIK, FFS is different on different architectures, and I will not be able to use newfs on FreeBSD to create a filesystem usable by OpenBSD/Sparc. Can I use FreeBSD's disklabel to split the disk into a 32Mb b-part and a huge c-part (how?)? Can I then ``dd'' the tar-balls to it, boot from floppy(ies) and use the /dev/rsd0b instead of /dev/nrst0 ? After the succesfull install, I'll use the b-part as swap... Any other ideas? See, I'm trying to utilize the fast connection of the FreeBSD host, while minimizing the number of times I have to drive from one machine to another :) Thanks in advance for any hints! Yours, -mi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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