Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2008 14:48:48 +0200 From: Mauro Calderara <mcalderara@phys.ethz.ch> To: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Subject: netboot/install on sparc64 Message-ID: <979CB183-376B-45A9-893D-D5EE5307123E@phys.ethz.ch>
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Hi everyone I'm new to FreeBSD and sparc64 and am currently trying to install FreeBSD on a few Netras 105 and Fire V120 Machines, all but one do not have a CDROM drive. Searching for documentation I stumbled across this document here: http://www.freebsd.org/fr/relnotes/CURRENT/installation/sparc64/index.html This actually helped a lot (thanks to the guy writing it). Rather than 8.0-Current, I'd like to install 7.0 but once the system booted, that's no problem I guess, given that I have to do it without sysinstall anyway. It's just that the files it refers to (all under ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/development/sparc64/) are currently unavailable. Reading that one can use the ISO's loader instead, I tried my luck with the loader from the 7.0 .iso and by loading the kernel over tftp by hand I was able to boot it. After loading the kernel, the system can't mount the nfs-root though and that I cannot specify by hand it seems. So does anyone either know how to deal with this or could someone re- upload the files pointed to in the document? Namely these would be: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/development/sparc64/loader-tftp.gz ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/development/sparc64/loader-nfs.gz ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/development/sparc64/distrib.tar.gz Maybe these are supposed to be built by the user anyway? If so, what exactly is in distrib.tar.gz? After all, one machine does have a CDROM- drive, so I can at least install one and build the files myself (maybe I can, that is, never built the system myself). Or maybe there even are such files around for 7.0 but I didn't find them? Thanks for all pointers and help, mauro
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