Date: Thu, 28 May 2015 20:37:35 +0000 From: "Brian McGovern (bmcgover)" <bmcgover@cisco.com> To: Torfinn Ingolfsen <torfinn.ingolfsen@getmail.no>, "freebsd-sparc64@FreeBSD.org" <freebsd-sparc64@FreeBSD.org> Subject: RE: netboot vs. PXE (Was: ) Message-ID: <9188C39BA10D2744B38454F26774E1B83115C7EF@xmb-aln-x05.cisco.com> In-Reply-To: <20150528220949.6109415fb5a0a4890e1bba98@getmail.no> References: <1432801667.8486.YahooMailBasic@web184303.mail.ne1.yahoo.com>, <20150528220949.6109415fb5a0a4890e1bba98@getmail.no>
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Is it a fairly recent Sun box that supports DHCP? If so, you should be able= to get it up on the network, tftp the kernel, then mount an NFS filesystem= to do the install. -B ________________________________________ From: owner-freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org [owner-freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org]= on behalf of Torfinn Ingolfsen [torfinn.ingolfsen@getmail.no] Sent: Thursday, May 28, 2015 4:09 PM To: freebsd-sparc64@FreeBSD.org Subject: netboot vs. PXE (Was: ) On Thu, 28 May 2015 01:27:47 -0700 Daniel Rudy <dr2867@pacbell.net> wrote: > > I've been using FreeBSD extensively since 3.2 on i386 hardware. However,= this is my first foray into a different platform. I'm finding out that I = need to do a PXE boot of the machine to install FreeBSD, > but the sparc install DVD doesn't have the pxeboot program. This machine= does not have a CD/DVD drive or even USB ports. So how do I install FreeB= SD onto this machine? > I was following the procedure here: http://www.freebsdwiki.net/index.php/= Installing_FreeBSD_with_netboot FWIW, netboot and PXE boot are different implementations of the same idea. Real server class hardware (in general Unix as an operating system and not = Intel architecure) has had netboot for ages now. Gernerally, you don't need pxeboot on this type of machine. HTH -- Torfinn Ingolfsen <torfinn.ingolfsen@getmail.no> _______________________________________________ freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-sparc64 To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-sparc64-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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