From owner-freebsd-sparc Sun Mar 23 12:56: 1 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-sparc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 532E737B401 for ; Sun, 23 Mar 2003 12:56:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from tms002bb.han.telia.se (tms002bb.han.telia.se [131.115.230.133]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3725D43F85 for ; Sun, 23 Mar 2003 12:55:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Magnus.M.Glantz@telia.se) Received: from tms031mb.han.telia.se ([131.115.230.162]) by tms002bb.han.telia.se with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.5329); Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:55:57 +0100 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.0.6318.0 content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Sun Ultra 10 + FreeBSD 5.0 Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:55:57 +0100 Message-ID: <6A72D51571C7C348906310222963B23D01376DE6@TMS031MB.tcad.telia.se> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: Sun Ultra 10 + FreeBSD 5.0 Thread-Index: AcLxfppJ9c9mL5qrQcKhPhXD4UOx7w== From: To: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 23 Mar 2003 20:55:57.0882 (UTC) FILETIME=[9A6D41A0:01C2F17E] Sender: owner-freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi.. =20 I'm trying to install FreeBSD 5.0 on a Sun Ultra 10 Sparc64 box.. :-\ =20 I've read some stuff about no consoll support.. but succeeded in = installing the operative system and getting network. =20 The installation-meny from hell is hackable with this tip.. (got it off = a maillist) -------------------------------------------------------------------------= ------------------------------- Choose termtyp 1 in the installationsprompt. Use Ctrl-N and Ctrl-P to move up and down.. you'll see the mouse pointer = flash quickly at the alternetive that's choosen. Then use TAB to move between windows. Enter/Space to choose stuff and Ctrl-D to delete. -------------------------------------------------------------------------= ------------------------------- =20 Next step after getting network up n running is XFree86.. When tryin' to install from /usr/ports/x11/XFree86 it doesnt go very = well though.. I get acouple of critical Error 1 in the (final stage?!) of the = compilation resulting in failure of the installation. =20 (I don't got the errors i get but on request i can reproduce em.. (take = 3 hours of compiling to get em that's why i dont include em here)) =20 Anyone here that succeeded in installing FreeBSD for Sun Ultra 5/10? or = got any experience that is relevant and might be of help? =20 Best regards, //Magnus Glantz =20 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message