From owner-freebsd-sparc64@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 5 23:32:08 2004 Return-Path: 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 B882F16A4CE for ; Mon, 5 Jan 2004 23:32:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail1.speakeasy.net (mail1.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.201]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6159743D45 for ; Mon, 5 Jan 2004 23:32:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jmg@hydrogen.funkthat.com) Received: (qmail 27682 invoked from network); 6 Jan 2004 07:32:05 -0000 Received: from dsl017-045-168.spk4.dsl.speakeasy.net (HELO hydrogen.funkthat.com) ([69.17.45.168]) (envelope-sender ) by mail1.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 6 Jan 2004 07:32:05 -0000 Received: from hydrogen.funkthat.com (rahsrq@localhost.funkthat.com [127.0.0.1])i067W5j2022804; Mon, 5 Jan 2004 23:32:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jmg@hydrogen.funkthat.com) Received: (from jmg@localhost) by hydrogen.funkthat.com (8.12.10/8.12.10/Submit) id i067W4xf022803; Mon, 5 Jan 2004 23:32:04 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2004 23:32:04 -0800 From: John-Mark Gurney To: Garance A Drosihn Message-ID: <20040106073204.GD74366@funkthat.com> Mail-Followup-To: Garance A Drosihn , sparc64@freebsd.org References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE i386 X-PGP-Fingerprint: B7 EC EF F8 AE ED A7 31 96 7A 22 B3 D8 56 36 F4 X-Files: The truth is out there X-URL: http://resnet.uoregon.edu/~gurney_j/ X-Resume: http://resnet.uoregon.edu/~gurney_j/resume.html cc: sparc64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Minor sparc64 install-time questions X-BeenThere: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: John-Mark Gurney List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the Sparc List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2004 07:32:09 -0000 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.. :) -- John-Mark Gurney Voice: +1 415 225 5579 "All that I will do, has been done, All that I have, has not."