Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2012 23:56:00 +0000 From: Kaya Saman <kayasaman@gmail.com> To: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Subject: Net Booting FreeBSD Message-ID: <50B00D10.10201@gmail.com>
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Hi, I've been through the Handbook and Google however, it seems that there isn't anywhere that has a guide to net boot FreeBSD on Sun SPARC systems. I have a Sun Fire V210 and would like to install FreeBSD 9 onto it. I'm using Fedora 17 32-bit as a boot server, and so far I have: setup raprd, bootparamd, tftpd, and nfsd (simple Solaris/OpenBSD/Debian (have recently installed them using this technique) boot setup) Where I am stuck is the tftp and nfs setup. Having recently jumpstarted OpenBSD I did a similar thing, I'm going to bypass rarpd as I'm able to get an IP address so there's no issue there (logs confirm): I put the "loader" file into the /tftpboot directory and symlinked the HEX of the IP address to it. It seems however that this isn't the correct file and unfortunately I am stuck as to where to find it? As for the rest.... I have mounted the freebsd-9.0-current-disk1.iso into a directory called /iso and exported this via NFS. The configuration for /etc/bootparams is basically to use the /iso/ dir as root for the install. Could someone help me figuring out the file that should be placed in /tftpboot?? Regards, Kaya
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