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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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