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Date:      29 Aug 2001 09:10:24 +0100
From:      Wayne Pascoe <wayne.pascoe@ehsrealtime.com>
To:        Bsd Newbie <bsdneophyte@yahoo.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: a toughie... installing FreeBSD on a diskless Sparc4...
Message-ID:  <86n14jz3pr.fsf@pan.ehsrealtime.com>
In-Reply-To: <20010829080205.95647.qmail@web20102.mail.yahoo.com>
References:  <20010829080205.95647.qmail@web20102.mail.yahoo.com>

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Bsd Newbie <bsdneophyte@yahoo.com> 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 <wayne.pascoe@ehsrealtime.com>
Phone : +44 (0) 20 7017 1221

Things fall apart; the center cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world. - Yeats

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