Date: Wed, 25 May 2005 06:59:20 +0200 From: Joerg Wunsch <j@ida.interface-business.de> To: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: installation without CDROM Message-ID: <20050525045919.GA22279@ida.interface-business.de> In-Reply-To: <ee2f4e6050524193359e38062@mail.gmail.com> References: <ee2f4e6050524193359e38062@mail.gmail.com>
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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/
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