Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2005 23:27:04 +0200 From: Marius Strobl <marius@alchemy.franken.de> To: Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org> Cc: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Where are the Sparc64 Installation Boot Floppies? (was - Re: Installation on SUN U10 Continued) Message-ID: <20050623232704.B29615@newtrinity.zeist.de> In-Reply-To: <42BB0F23.5030803@samsco.org>; from scottl@samsco.org on Thu, Jun 23, 2005 at 01:36:03PM -0600 References: <1119526083.7606.11.camel@lmail.bathnetworks.co.uk> <1119549678.29881.237027609@webmail.messagingengine.com> <20050623182244.GA48910@dragon.NUXI.org> <200506231437.51814.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <1119555190.15584.237034245@webmail.messagingengine.com> <42BB0F23.5030803@samsco.org>
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On Thu, Jun 23, 2005 at 01:36:03PM -0600, Scott Long wrote: > Brett D. Estrade wrote: > > On Thu, 23 Jun 2005 14:37:50 -0400, "John Baldwin" <jhb@FreeBSD.org> > > said: > > > >>On Thursday 23 June 2005 02:22 pm, David O'Brien wrote: > >> > >>>[ please don't top post - it looses context ] > >>> > >>>On Thu, Jun 23, 2005 at 01:01:18PM -0500, Brett D. Estrade wrote: > >>> > >>>>Do the installation boot floppy images for sparc64 exist as the > >>>>documentation claims, or are they a myth? > >>> > >>>They do not exist. These document files are shared with other FreeBSD > >>>architectures that do have boot floppies (i386 and alpha). > >> > >>You can bug bmah@ about making the references to floppies only show up in > >>the > >>i386 and alpha release notes. > >> > > > > > > Would he also be able to note that you need to install through a serial > > console? That and the floppies thing were the only 2 "gotchas" that > > plagued me after I thought I had gone through the effort of informing > > myself about FreeBSD on Sparc64....of course this still leaves Robert in > > a lurch with his U10 dilemma :\ > > > > Brett > > Installing from a normal video console should work a lot better with > 6.0. I think that the June snapshot has enough pieces to demonstrate > this, if you're willing to check it out. > 6.0-CURRENT-SNAP004 is from before syscons(4) etc. was enabled in the sparc64 GENERIC so can't be used to do an install via a graphics console. There's however still my custom release for testing on the Blade 100 laying around which has it enabled (but doesn't have support for PS/2 hardware, yet): http://people.freebsd.org/~marius/6.0-20050515-SNAP-sparc64-disc1.iso.bz2 When installing it I'd suggest to update to the latest 6.0-CURRENT afterwards. Marius
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