Date: Tue, 6 Aug 2002 21:05:29 +1000 From: "Leigh V" <leighv@roq.com> To: <freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Sun Netra X1 success, almost Message-ID: <006001c23d39$2d4daa50$2d01a8c0@michael>
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After trying to netboot the Netra X1, and failing http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=6418+0+archive/2002/freebsd-spa rc/20020804.freebsd-sparc http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=33066+0+archive/2002/freebsd-sp arc/20020804.freebsd-sparc I pulled out the HD of the Netra X1 and put it into a sunblade 100 machine I have. with the idea of installing and setting it up from CD from that and putting it back into the Netra X1 I got it to boot from CD but only seems to work properly in single user mode and booting it with -C to mount the cdrom and the root filesystem boot -sC but once I get to the shell its extremely slow and sometimes have to hit a key twice for it to go through to the machine. I did disklabel -w -r ad0 auto on the shell and the CDROM started up and just stayed spinning, I left it for over 30mins but nothing happened, so I thought I would try putting the CDROM in the second IDE port of the Netra X1. I set the cdrom to master and put it in the second IDE port of the Netra X1 and did "boot cdrom" and it booted nicely and ran at a nice normal speed. It printed out pretty much the exact same crap that is on here http://people.freebsd.org/~jake/sparc64/tip.record But I don't understand how to disklabel it, I did "disklabel -w -r ad0 auto" which went just fine And then I did "disklabel -e ad0" and it comes up with all the partition info with just partition "c:" showing the full size of the drive, how do I make the other slices? how am I spose to know what numbers to put in there? On the instructions at http://people.freebsd.org/~bmah/relnotes/CURRENT/installation-sparc64.html and the man file for disklabel http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=disklabel&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD +5.0-current They just have examples of doing "disklabel -e devicename" and just say "add them here" like its some super easy thing that doesn't deserve an example. Well I say it does :) Can some one give me an example? All I want is a disklabel example for root "/" and swap, and maybe "/usr" I like to have the least amount of partitions possible because they always end up being a pain in the ass other wise, I never use any of that read only partition crap and I don't recon having separate partitions has noticeable performance benefits if it does I wanna see some benchmarks, or does it make it easier to manage in terms of file system checks?, To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message
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