From owner-freebsd-sparc64@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 5 19:18:45 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EAA1316A4CE for ; Mon, 5 Jan 2004 19:18:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp2.server.rpi.edu (smtp2.server.rpi.edu [128.113.2.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B82A43D1D for ; Mon, 5 Jan 2004 19:18:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from drosih@rpi.edu) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.netel.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by smtp2.server.rpi.edu (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id i063Ihlb002790 for ; Mon, 5 Jan 2004 22:18:43 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: drosih@mail.rpi.edu Message-Id: Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2004 22:18:42 -0500 To: sparc64@FreeBSD.ORG From: Garance A Drosihn Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . canit . ca) Subject: Minor sparc64 install-time questions X-BeenThere: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the Sparc List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2004 03:18:46 -0000 I just did an install of 5.2-rc2 on my Sparc Ultra-10 machine. That seems to have gone fine, but I have two questions. Right after booting up, the user is asked to pick a terminal type, from: 1 - standard ansi terminal 2 - vt100 or compatible 3 - freebsd system console (color) 4 - freebsd system console (mono) 5 - xterm terminal emulator None of those worked particularly great for me, although all of them seemed to work "to some degree". I finally decided on choice #2, as that seemed to work the best in the disklabel step. How does one know which to pick? - - - Also, is there any way to have more than 7 BSD partitions (in addition to 'c', of course) on a single hard disk? - - - Also, are we supposed to be using 'bsdlabel' instead of 'disklabel' now? I assume so, since there is no disklabel installed in my system... When I go to run bsdlabel, it tells me that I *must* specify a -m architecture, even though the man page indicates that is optional. The man page also does not say what valid values for 'arch' are (neither does the program). Looking at the source, it seems that nothing sparc-ish is listed as a valid option. I can do disklabeling chores via sysinstall, where it both works and also claims that it's the 'FreeBSD Disklabel Editor'. - - - One last question, which may do nothing more than show how I am ignorant of some details. After the install of 5.2-RC2 onto a clean disk, /lib has a variety of "versioned" libraries, such as libutil.so.4. However, it does not include any symlinks from the non-versioned name (eg: libutil.so) to one of the versioned files. /usr/lib does seem to include such symlinks, as does /lib on my freebsd/i386 system. Is this how /lib is expected to be on a new sparc64 install? -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu