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From: Bsd Newbie <bsdneophyte@yahoo.com>
Subject: RE: a toughie... installing FreeBSD on a diskless Sparc4...
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Thanks to all for your help... I was able to get a hold of an old SCSI
drive from a Mac and boot using that.

Does anyone know where I can find more information about the Sparc FreeBSD
port that's still in it's infancy?

-Sameer

--- Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm@toybox.placo.com> wrote:
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Rick Hamell [mailto:hamellr@heorot.1nova.com]
> >Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2001 9:03 AM
> >To: Ted Mittelstaedt
> >Cc: Bsd Newbie; freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> >Subject: RE: a toughie... installing FreeBSD on a diskless Sparc4...
> >
> >
> >
> >> If you have a Sun monitor and keyboard
> >> for your Sparc there is a command key sequence that will dump the 
> >system into
> >> it's BIOS which you can then issue a command to boot it single user
> and
> >> once there change the root password to whatever you want.  See
> >> http://www.sun.com for more details.
> >
> >	Stop-A on most boxes... Assuming you have the Type 5 KB... BTW, it
> >dosen't have to be a Sparc CDROM drive... It just has to be a SCSI! I
> 
> But it also has to be switched into using 512 byte blocks.  This may
> have been fixed in later Sparcs but I remember running into this problem
> the last time I tried hanging a SCSI CD off of a Sparc.  I had to get
> a CDROM with a jumper on the back.
> 
> 
> 
> Ted Mittelstaedt                                      
> tedm@toybox.placo.com
> Author of:                           The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's
> Guide
> Book website:                         
> http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com
> 
> 
> 
> >found a NEC SCSI Cdrom and External case at the Goodwil for $5, and it
> >works great... :) (Plus a whole hoard of SCSI cables.) 
> >	BTW... there is a FreeBSD-Sparc mailing list and port.. it's just
> >really infantile due to everyone's time schedule... :(
> >
> >	Rick
> >
> >
> >*******************************************************************
> >Rick's FreeBSD Web page http://heorot.1nova.com/freebsd
> >Ace Logan's Hardware Guide http://hw.shatteredcrystal.com
> >***FreeBSD - The Power to Serve! http://www.freebsd.org
> >
> >


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