From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 29 2:14:44 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailin1.bigpond.com (juicer13.bigpond.com [139.134.6.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF4DD37B401 for ; Wed, 29 Aug 2001 02:14:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rmoss@bigpond.net.au) Received: from spiral.bigpond.net.au ([144.135.24.69]) by mailin1.bigpond.com (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with SMTP id GITOMJ00.HCL; Wed, 29 Aug 2001 19:20:43 +1000 Received: from CPE-144-132-3-53.vic.bigpond.net.au ([144.132.3.53]) by bwmam01.mailsvc.email.bigpond.com(MailRouter V2.9i 8311/1806483); 29 Aug 2001 19:20:42 Message-Id: <5.0.2.1.0.20010829190910.02510430@localhost> X-Sender: rmoss/pop-server.vic.bigpond.net.au@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.0.2 Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2001 19:10:18 +1000 To: "Ted Mittelstaedt" From: Robert Moss Subject: RE: a toughie... installing FreeBSD on a diskless Sparc4... Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <007b01c13068$92d74cc0$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> References: <20010829080205.95647.qmail@web20102.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed 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 From the keyboard you hold down STOP and press A to go back to the OK prompt (OpenBoot Prom) This only works on SPARC systems (Intel/x86 keyboards do not have OpenBoot) rob. At 01:57 AM 29/08/2001 -0700, you wrote: >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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message