From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 29 1:11:38 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from clientmail.realtime.co.uk (simian.ehsrealtime.com [213.52.146.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B478837B406 for ; Wed, 29 Aug 2001 01:11:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wayne.pascoe@ehsrealtime.com) Received: from pan.ehsrealtime.com ([213.52.146.196]) by clientmail.realtime.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 15c0Ql-0006GQ-01; Wed, 29 Aug 2001 09:10:35 +0100 Received: from waynep by pan.ehsrealtime.com with local (Exim 3.22 #1) id 15c0Qa-0000HW-00; Wed, 29 Aug 2001 09:10:24 +0100 From: Wayne Pascoe To: Bsd Newbie Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: a toughie... installing FreeBSD on a diskless Sparc4... References: <20010829080205.95647.qmail@web20102.mail.yahoo.com> Reply-To: wayne.pascoe@ehsrealtime.com Date: 29 Aug 2001 09:10:24 +0100 In-Reply-To: <20010829080205.95647.qmail@web20102.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <86n14jz3pr.fsf@pan.ehsrealtime.com> Lines: 28 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Bsd Newbie writes: > It's alot more difficult that it seems. Lemme' give a little of what's > going on. > > I have a Sparc4. I don't have the root password for the Sparc4, so it's > pretty much useless right now (well, okay it's like a monitor rest). The > Sparc doesn't have a floppy or a CDROM. > > The Sparc has it's IP address (which is a different class let alone > network) which isn't compatible with my network. > > I want to be able to mount a Sparc version of FreeBSD on my working > Celeron/FreeBSD box and have the Sparc boot off of that CDROM and install > FreeBSD over it's version of Solaris 2.5.1 AFAIK, you're right. It is going to be impossible. I don't believe that FreeBSD supports the sparc platform. I think you'll find that you will need to look to OpenBSD or NetBSD for your sparc. HTH. -- Wayne Pascoe Phone : +44 (0) 20 7017 1221 Things fall apart; the center cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world. - Yeats To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message