From owner-freebsd-sparc Tue Dec 29 12:31:41 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA08322 for freebsd-sparc-outgoing; Tue, 29 Dec 1998 12:31:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from bright.fx.genx.net (bright.fx.genx.net [206.64.4.154]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA08317 for ; Tue, 29 Dec 1998 12:31:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bright@hotjobs.com) Received: from localhost (bright@localhost) by bright.fx.genx.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id PAA59790 for ; Tue, 29 Dec 1998 15:35:33 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from bright@hotjobs.com) X-Authentication-Warning: bright.fx.genx.net: bright owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 15:35:33 -0500 (EST) From: Alfred Perlstein X-Sender: bright@bright.fx.genx.net To: sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: netbsd compiler and kernel are available, need testers Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org ok several things: i've uploaded several files to: ftp://janus.syracuse.net/pub/FreeBSD/sparc64/ in the directory: ftp://janus.syracuse.net/pub/FreeBSD/sparc64/boot/ you'll find 4 files, bootfile for netbsd and a netbsd kernel along with MD5 checksums ** NEED TESTER FOR THIS ** can someone with a regular u/140 or u/170 try to boot with these? it's not too difficult, you have to make an /etc/ethers file with the ethernet address of the sparc in it: ~ % cat /etc/ethers # MAC -> inet addr # - de0 # jonas sun4u 8:0:20:79:62:f5 jonas.reserved ^----------------------sparc's MAC address (get from netstat -nr) ------------------^ (replace with your sparc's hostname/ip you need to run rarpd on the same interface that the sparc is connected to: rarpd you need to then: mkdir /tftpboot ; cd /tftpboot cp ofwboot /tftpboot/ ln -s ofwboot so it looks like: ~ % ls -l /tftpboot/ lrwxrwxrwx 1 root wheel 7 Dec 29 04:10 C0A80114 -> ofwboot -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 54946 Dec 29 04:10 ofwboot (my sparc's ip is: 192.168.1.20) you need to then copy the 'netbsd' kernel image to your sparc's root dir then you need to reboot the sparc and hit stop-A at boot, or send it via "~#" through cu (serial consol) type: "boot net" then type in the entire boot line: ie. /sbus/SUNW,fas@e,8800000/sd@0,0/netbsd then... send me an email and tell me what happened :) thanks, also check this: ftp://janus.syracuse.net/pub/FreeBSD/sparc64/egcs you'll find 4 files, egcs-netbsd-i386-crossto-sparc64.bin.MD5 egcs-netbsd-i386-crossto-sparc64.bin.tgz this is the i386 netbsd-current binaries that can generate sparc64 code along with MD5 unpack to /usr/local should dump them into /usr/local/sparc64 egcs-netbsd-i386-crossto-sparc64.src.MD5 egcs-netbsd-i386-crossto-sparc64.src.tgz this is the egcs source ripped from netbsd and configure properly to compile under netbsd-current, this isn't _that_ difficult to do. unpack anywhere would anyone please try to boot the kernel i have placed on janus? Alfred Perlstein - Programmer, HotJobs Inc. - www.hotjobs.com -- There are operating systems, and then there's FreeBSD. -- http://www.freebsd.org/ 3.0-current To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message