From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 30 1:59:33 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [206.29.169.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C608837B406 for ; Thu, 30 Aug 2001 01:59:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) Received: from tedm.placo.com (nat-rtr.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [206.29.168.154]) by mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id f7U8wSb80784; Thu, 30 Aug 2001 01:58:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" To: "Rick Hamell" Cc: "Bsd Newbie" , Subject: RE: a toughie... installing FreeBSD on a diskless Sparc4... Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 01:58:28 -0700 Message-ID: <007701c13131$ef602a60$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 In-Reply-To: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 Importance: Normal 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 >-----Original Message----- >From: Rick Hamell [mailto:hamellr@heorot.1nova.com] >Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2001 9:03 AM >To: Ted Mittelstaedt >Cc: Bsd Newbie; freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >Subject: RE: a toughie... installing FreeBSD on a diskless Sparc4... > > > >> 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. > > Stop-A on most boxes... Assuming you have the Type 5 KB... BTW, it >dosen't have to be a Sparc CDROM drive... It just has to be a SCSI! I But it also has to be switched into using 512 byte blocks. This may have been fixed in later Sparcs but I remember running into this problem the last time I tried hanging a SCSI CD off of a Sparc. I had to get a CDROM with a jumper on the back. Ted Mittelstaedt tedm@toybox.placo.com Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide Book website: http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com >found a NEC SCSI Cdrom and External case at the Goodwil for $5, and it >works great... :) (Plus a whole hoard of SCSI cables.) > BTW... there is a FreeBSD-Sparc mailing list and port.. it's just >really infantile due to everyone's time schedule... :( > > Rick > > >******************************************************************* >Rick's FreeBSD Web page http://heorot.1nova.com/freebsd >Ace Logan's Hardware Guide http://hw.shatteredcrystal.com >***FreeBSD - The Power to Serve! http://www.freebsd.org > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message