Date: Tue, 20 May 2003 09:46:06 -0600 (MDT) From: Fred Clift <fclift@verio.net> To: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Subject: 5.1-BETA problems (minor) was Re: usage of boot.flp Message-ID: <20030520093238.X37246@irfcn.qzm.berz.irevb.arg> In-Reply-To: <20030519222919.GA18282@locore.ca> References: <20030519133345.Y34980@irfcn.qzm.berz.irevb.arg> <20030519222919.GA18282@locore.ca>
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On Mon, 19 May 2003, Jake Burkholder wrote: > Apparently, On Mon, May 19, 2003 at 01:45:39PM -0600, > Fred Clift said words to the effect of; > > Or am I just doing this wrong? Hm -- perhaps i should boot into my > > network recovery shell and dd this over the first slice? I'm new to > > FreeBSD on sparc64 - thanks for your patience and help. > > Yes. dd it to a slice and boot from that. For some reason this didn't work - I got unaligned access traps (hm could be remembering the phrase wrong...) from the boot loader. I dl'd the mini-iso burnt it to a CD, scrounged up a scsi cdrom drive and booted off of that The install is still running as I write this. A couple of minor nits which you all probably know about. I'm using tip running in an xterm as my serial console to this machine. At the beginning of the install, I was presented with a set of 4 choices about terminal type - when I choose xterm, my screen was all garbled and I ended up having to reboot and restart - at which point I chose vt100 and things work just fine. Second, the installer doesn't appear to be aware that krb5 is now part of the base system as it complained about not being able to find that package to install. Similarly, I tried to install the ports tree - no package found... And (using ftp2.freebsd.org for my ftp install) it complained once or twice about not being able to find the index file for the packages that should be there... sure looks like there is a bunch of stuff in /pub/FreeBSD/ports/sparc64/packages-5-current/All on that box, but shrug. I'll try and cvsup ports once the box is up. I guess that since there isn't console support on these machines yet that there probably isn't X support? :). This is mostly just a toy for me to play with. Fred -- Fred Clift - fclift@verio.net -- Remember: If brute force doesn't work, you're just not using enough.
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