Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2002 15:56:02 -0500 From: Jake Burkholder <jake@locore.ca> To: Steve Barkey <sbarkey@alexin.ca> Cc: freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installing and Ideas Message-ID: <20020325155601.A18553@locore.ca> In-Reply-To: <6F23C7A733C4E94DB92C77EF1C6DA4D9444D@iron.alexin.ca>; from sbarkey@alexin.ca on Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 03:02:33PM -0500 References: <6F23C7A733C4E94DB92C77EF1C6DA4D9444D@iron.alexin.ca>
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Apparently, On Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 03:02:33PM -0500, Steve Barkey said words to the effect of; > Hey Everyone! > > I finally got my 20020321 system booted by changing the cdroms and > unplugging the floppy drive. Who knows why. > > Anyway: I boot up fine, but I can't find instructions anywhere on > loading the system right onto a partition and booting from it. Is this > possible yet??? Yes, you just have to do it by hand. The tip.record in that directory has a transcript of an install on my u60 but things have changed a little. Roughly: label your drive(s) with disklabel -Brw <device> auto, use disklabel -e <device> to make your filesystems, newfs and mount them and then untar the tarball. You also need to make an fstab at least, and then setup rc.conf etc. > > Also; Jake: I know you have a lot on your mind, but making the /etc load > on to a RAM drive or symbolically linking files like; /etc/resolv.conf, > /etc/ssh/sshd_config; /etc/ssh/ssh_host_key* to /var/etc would make the > system substantially more useable - you could get name resolution > allowing more daemons to run. SSHD could generate its > /var/etc/ssh/*host_key* on boot and you could get in remotely. The point of having the cd boot mutlti user is to provide a reasonable evironment to install from, where vi works etc. Its not meant to be used as a full system per se. > > > Let me know if I can contribute! Looking forward to the next version! Well, if you find it hard to install you could always make sysinstall work :) Jake To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message
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