Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2004 23:32:04 -0800 From: John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@efn.org> To: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> Cc: sparc64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Minor sparc64 install-time questions Message-ID: <20040106073204.GD74366@funkthat.com> In-Reply-To: <p06020425bc1fccaf6ded@[128.113.24.47]> References: <p06020425bc1fccaf6ded@[128.113.24.47]>
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Garance A Drosihn wrote this message on Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 22:18 -0500:
> I just did an install of 5.2-rc2 on my Sparc Ultra-10 machine.
> That seems to have gone fine, but I have two questions.
>
> Right after booting up, the user is asked to pick a terminal
> type, from:
> 1 - standard ansi terminal
> 2 - vt100 or compatible
> 3 - freebsd system console (color)
> 4 - freebsd system console (mono)
> 5 - xterm terminal emulator
>
> None of those worked particularly great for me, although all
> of them seemed to work "to some degree". I finally decided on
> choice #2, as that seemed to work the best in the disklabel
> step. How does one know which to pick?
You need to know what type of terminal you are using. If you are
using Windows Terminal, then 1 is probably best.. xterm + tip on
another box, then 5... console + tip on a FreeBSD box, then 3 or 4..
> Also, is there any way to have more than 7 BSD partitions (in
> addition to 'c', of course) on a single hard disk?
possibly add another label to one of the partitions... I haven't
tried this, but it should work.. :)
> Also, are we supposed to be using 'bsdlabel' instead of
> 'disklabel' now? I assume so, since there is no disklabel
> installed in my system... When I go to run bsdlabel, it tells
> me that I *must* specify a -m architecture, even though the
> man page indicates that is optional. The man page also does
> not say what valid values for 'arch' are (neither does the
> program). Looking at the source, it seems that nothing
> sparc-ish is listed as a valid option.
on sparc you need to be using sunlabel to be compatible with openboot
to be able to boot the disk..
> I can do disklabeling chores via sysinstall, where it both
> works and also claims that it's the 'FreeBSD Disklabel Editor'.
Yep, lots of people use sysinstall for this..
> One last question, which may do nothing more than show how
> I am ignorant of some details. After the install of 5.2-RC2
> onto a clean disk, /lib has a variety of "versioned" libraries,
> such as libutil.so.4. However, it does not include any symlinks
> from the non-versioned name (eg: libutil.so) to one of the
> versioned files. /usr/lib does seem to include such symlinks,
> as does /lib on my freebsd/i386 system. Is this how /lib is
> expected to be on a new sparc64 install?
My upgraded (from source) system is the same way. I haven't had any
problems, though I haven't used it much.. so I guess it's the way
it's suppose to be.. :)
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