Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1998 07:16:09 -0700 (PDT) From: David Wolfskill <dhw@whistle.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Sun Floppy? Message-ID: <199804091416.HAA25492@pau-amma.whistle.com>
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>Date: Wed, 08 Apr 1998 11:18:09 -0500 >From: Bob Alberti <alberti@freenet.msp.mn.us> >Hi! I recently came into an old SparcClassic. I'd like to install FreeBSD >on it. Is there any way to build a floppy image to start the process, >particularly if one must use a PC to build the floppy? The machine itself >has a blank 300 MB hard drive and no CD. I have no reason to believe that the machine has any provision for booting from floppy. (Booting from a floppy, in that environment, is even more of an unnatural act than trying to use one in multi-user mode.) Your boot options are the network, the disk drive, or CD (which may be attached via the SCSI connector, though it will need to be set up for 512-byte blocks). The site http://www.sunhelp.com/ has a large variety of useful pointers. There is also a mailing list for folks interested in FreeBSD on SPARC machines; it's freebsd-sparc@freebsd.org. david -- David Wolfskill dhw@whistle.com (650) 577-7158 pager: (650) 401-0168 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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