Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2002 19:56:24 -0500 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: "Steve Barkey" <sbarkey@alexin.ca> Cc: <freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Installing and Ideas Message-ID: <p05101510b8c57483b9a9@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <6F23C7A733C4E94DB92C77EF1C6DA4D94450@iron.alexin.ca> References: <6F23C7A733C4E94DB92C77EF1C6DA4D94450@iron.alexin.ca>
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At 5:22 PM -0500 3/25/02, Steve Barkey wrote: >I hate to be a pain in the ass, but here I go: I basically >don't understand most of those instructions. You might want to check out the install instructions off of: http://people.freebsd.org/~bmah/relnotes/ Read down under the CURRENT (5.0-current) section, and you'll see a line called Installation notes, with links to some notes for sparc64. Those notes are not complete, but they'll give you a bit more background to get going. ><device> (presumably meaning my harddrive) isn't in /dev, not >in any recognizable form anyway. For instance, the section on "Creating a disk label" drops the hint that the device would be 'ad0' for the first ATA disk. The exact name of the device depends on the type of controller which is driving it. You might be able to figure that out by looking at the startup messages as they go by, or by doing a 'dmesg | more' after you are booted up off the CD. The thing is, you have to be able to figure out it from the dmesg's. The freebsd/sparc project isn't quite far enough along to have a lot of documentation for sparc novices. You might also check the earlier thread in this mailing list which had the subject of Subject: Re: DP1 release candidate 1 One of my messages to that thread included the list of steps that I took to install freebsd-sparc on my Ultra-10. Note that while those steps worked great for me, you may have to do different steps depending on your hardware and how you intend to run it. There was also a thread: Subject: FreeBSD/sparc64 install document active in -CURRENT which might be useful. (in fact, I'm not sure why my article is in the release-candidate thread, it makes more sense to be the install-document thread). -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message
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