Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2010 11:26:51 +0200 From: Torfinn Ingolfsen <torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> To: freebsd-sparc64@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Is it easy to netboot sun fire V210 using only sparc64 iso image and intel host? Message-ID: <20100417112651.a3985ef6.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> In-Reply-To: <4BC968B2.4030009@rawbw.com> References: <4BC968B2.4030009@rawbw.com>
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Hello, On Sat, 17 Apr 2010 00:52:18 -0700 Yuri <yuri@rawbw.com> wrote: > Sun fire V210 server won't boot from cdrom: can't open boot device, and > hard drives are blank. > Is it easy/feasible to make netboot installation for it if I don't have > any other sparc hardware, only intel computer and standard sparc64 > FreeBSD ISO image(s) from freebsd.org? It is feasible to netboot a Sparc machine from any other machine that runs FreeBSD. But I wouldn't call it easy - at least not if you haven't done netbooting of machines with Open Firmware before. Here is an article I wrote a long time ago: Netbooting a Sun machine from a FreeBSD machine http://geekinfo.net/article.php?story=20041101004514224 HTH -- Regards, Torfinn Ingolfsen
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