Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2001 01:57:04 -0700 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: "Bsd Newbie" <bsdneophyte@yahoo.com>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: a toughie... installing FreeBSD on a diskless Sparc4... Message-ID: <007b01c13068$92d74cc0$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <20010829080205.95647.qmail@web20102.mail.yahoo.com>
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FreeBSD is not ported to the Sparc. You want NetBSD (http://www.netbsd.org) but I'd recommend strongly you buy a CDROM for it, Sun CDROM's can be gotten very cheaply off of Ebay. If you have a Sun monitor and keyboard for your Sparc there is a command key sequence that will dump the system into it's BIOS which you can then issue a command to boot it single user and once there change the root password to whatever you want. See http://www.sun.com for more details. Ted Mittelstaedt tedm@toybox.placo.com Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide Book website: http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com >-----Original Message----- >From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Bsd Newbie >Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2001 1:02 AM >To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >Subject: a toughie... installing FreeBSD on a diskless Sparc4... > > > > >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 > >I don't know if this is possible. I hope it's possible. Please tell me >it's possible. > >Anyone have any ideas? > >__________________________________________________ >Do You Yahoo!? >Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger >http://phonecard.yahoo.com/ > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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