Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 01:58:28 -0700 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: "Rick Hamell" <hamellr@heorot.1nova.com> Cc: "Bsd Newbie" <bsdneophyte@yahoo.com>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: a toughie... installing FreeBSD on a diskless Sparc4... Message-ID: <007701c13131$ef602a60$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0108290855140.59175-100000@heorot.1nova.com>
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>-----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
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