From owner-freebsd-sparc64@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 16 13:21:26 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 25A37106566C for ; Mon, 16 Jun 2008 13:21:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mcalderara@phys.ethz.ch) Received: from wiggis.ethz.ch (wiggis.ethz.ch [129.132.86.197]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A030B8FC25 for ; Mon, 16 Jun 2008 13:21:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mcalderara@phys.ethz.ch) Received: from localhost (mailscanner.ethz.ch [192.33.98.100]) by wiggis.ethz.ch (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF22C433D for ; Mon, 16 Jun 2008 14:48:50 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at mailscanner.ethz.ch Received: from wiggis.ethz.ch ([129.132.86.197]) by localhost (mailscanner.ethz.ch [192.33.98.100]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id Sfi-PzpS5mz8 for ; Mon, 16 Jun 2008 14:48:48 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [10.10.5.23] (104-43-239-77-pool.cable.fcom.ch [77.239.43.104]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by wiggis.ethz.ch (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E2584347 for ; Mon, 16 Jun 2008 14:48:48 +0200 (CEST) Message-Id: <979CB183-376B-45A9-893D-D5EE5307123E@phys.ethz.ch> From: Mauro Calderara To: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v924) Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2008 14:48:48 +0200 X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.924) Subject: netboot/install on sparc64 X-BeenThere: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the Sparc List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2008 13:21:26 -0000 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