From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 9 07:17:05 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA01928 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 9 Apr 1998 07:17:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from whistle.com (s205m131.whistle.com [207.76.205.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA01863 for ; Thu, 9 Apr 1998 07:17:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dhw@whistle.com) Received: (from smap@localhost) by whistle.com (8.7.5/8.6.12) id HAA27574 for ; Thu, 9 Apr 1998 07:16:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pau-amma.whistle.com(207.76.205.64) by whistle.com via smap (V1.3) id sma027572; Thu Apr 9 07:16:09 1998 Received: (from dhw@localhost) by pau-amma.whistle.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) id HAA25492 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 9 Apr 1998 07:16:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dhw) Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1998 07:16:09 -0700 (PDT) From: David Wolfskill Message-Id: <199804091416.HAA25492@pau-amma.whistle.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Sun Floppy? Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >Date: Wed, 08 Apr 1998 11:18:09 -0500 >From: Bob Alberti >Hi! I recently came into an old SparcClassic. I'd like to install FreeBSD >on it. Is there any way to build a floppy image to start the process, >particularly if one must use a PC to build the floppy? The machine itself >has a blank 300 MB hard drive and no CD. I have no reason to believe that the machine has any provision for booting from floppy. (Booting from a floppy, in that environment, is even more of an unnatural act than trying to use one in multi-user mode.) Your boot options are the network, the disk drive, or CD (which may be attached via the SCSI connector, though it will need to be set up for 512-byte blocks). The site http://www.sunhelp.com/ has a large variety of useful pointers. There is also a mailing list for folks interested in FreeBSD on SPARC machines; it's freebsd-sparc@freebsd.org. david -- David Wolfskill dhw@whistle.com (650) 577-7158 pager: (650) 401-0168 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message