Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2006 09:40:46 -0600 From: Nicholas Riley <njriley@uiuc.edu> To: "Bruce O'Neel" <edoneel@sdf.lonestar.org> Cc: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NFS install writability on Netra t1 105 Message-ID: <20060103154046.GC40204@uiuc.edu> In-Reply-To: <20060103153541.GA458@SDF.LONESTAR.ORG> References: <20060103013246.GB34161@uiuc.edu> <20060103142149.3311c15b@blackdog.umbrella.net> <20060103143746.GA40204@uiuc.edu> <20060103152402.GB40204@uiuc.edu> <20060103153541.GA458@SDF.LONESTAR.ORG>
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On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 03:35:41PM +0000, Bruce O'Neel wrote: > Hi, > On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 09:24:02AM -0600, Nicholas Riley wrote: > > > I've seen several reports of people actually using the FreeBSD > > installer on sparc64 (albeit in 5.x versions); is it supposed to work > > still? > > Do you mean installing on a local disk? That does work, I did it > last week after booting the CD-ROM. Yes, I do mean installing on a local disk. Nothing exotic, I'm just attempting to use the installer over NFS because there's no local CD-ROM. > I've never tried installing on a nfs disk, I just untarred the > assorted bits from the cdrom on the nfs server. Indeed, I guess I could network boot the thing, but I'd rather not leave the disks unused :) -- Nicholas Riley <njriley@uiuc.edu> | <http://www.uiuc.edu/ph/www/njriley>;
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