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Date:      Thu, 9 Apr 1998 10:30:46 -0500 (CDT)
From:      "Paul T. Root" <proot@horton.iaces.com>
To:        dhw@whistle.com (David Wolfskill)
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD Sun Floppy?
Message-ID:  <199804091530.KAA16067@horton.iaces.com>
In-Reply-To: <199804091416.HAA25492@pau-amma.whistle.com> from David Wolfskill at "Apr 9, 98 07:16:09 am"

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In a previous message, David Wolfskill said:
> >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.)

I bet you could. It's just a device to the Open Boot Prom. The problem
is getting a sun kernel small enough to boot. 


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