From owner-freebsd-sparc64@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 25 04:59:22 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3AC6E16A41C for ; Wed, 25 May 2005 04:59:22 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from j@ida.interface-business.de) Received: from ida.interface-business.de (ida.interface-business.de [193.101.57.9]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D316F43D48 for ; Wed, 25 May 2005 04:59:21 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from j@ida.interface-business.de) Received: by ida.interface-business.de (Postfix, from userid 107) id 16C267A0C; Wed, 25 May 2005 06:59:20 +0200 (MET DST) Date: Wed, 25 May 2005 06:59:20 +0200 From: Joerg Wunsch To: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20050525045919.GA22279@ida.interface-business.de> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Phone: +49-351-31809-14 X-PGP-Fingerprint: 5E84 F980 C3CA FD4B B584 1070 F48C A81B 69A8 5873 Organization: interface systems GmbH, Dresden User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i Cc: Subject: Re: installation without CDROM X-BeenThere: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Joerg Wunsch List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the Sparc List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 25 May 2005 04:59:22 -0000 As Steve Tremblett wrote: > I understand how to mount an ISO image and share it via NFS or FTP, > but the docs leave out one major step: how do I boot the machine > INTO the installer to choose the media? I think that has been discussed/described here in the list before. You might want to search the archives for it. In short (I hope I don't forget anything): . your server machine needs to run rarpd because that's what the Sparc firmware is using; make sure you update /etc/ethers as well there . your server machine needs to run tftpd, have boot/loader (for the sparc64 arch) in its tftpd dir, and there must be a link from that boot/loader file to a file named by the hexadecimal IP address of the system trying to boot; so for a target machine having the address 192.168.3.5, make a link to C0A80305 . you then need a DHCP server because that's what FreeBSD's loader uses, entries look like: host yourhost { hardware ethernet 8:0:20:XX:XX:XX; fixed-address yourhost; option host-name "yourhost"; always-reply-rfc1048 on; filename "kernel"; option root-path "192.168.3.1:/cdrom"; } That's how it finds the installation CD-ROM image then. Of course, the image might be mounted via an md(4) device. -- J"org Wunsch Unix support engineer joerg_wunsch@interface-systems.de http://www.interface-systems.de/~j/