Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2002 17:22:30 -0500 From: "Steve Barkey" <sbarkey@alexin.ca> To: "Jake Burkholder" <jake@locore.ca> Cc: <freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Installing and Ideas Message-ID: <6F23C7A733C4E94DB92C77EF1C6DA4D94450@iron.alexin.ca>
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> From: Jake Burkholder [mailto:jake@locore.ca]=20 > Sent: Monday, March 25, 2002 3:56 PM > Cc: freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: Installing and Ideas >=20 > Yes, you just have to do it by hand. The tip.record in that=20 > directory has a transcript of an install on my u60 but things=20 > have changed a little. > Roughly: label your drive(s) with disklabel -Brw <device>=20 > auto, use disklabel -e <device> to make your filesystems,=20 > newfs and mount them and then untar the tarball. You also=20 > need to make an fstab at least, and then setup rc.conf etc. I hate to be a pain in the ass, but here I go: I basically don't understand most of those instructions. <device> (presumably meaning my harddrive) isn't in /dev, not in any recognizable form anyway. Should be hda? Or what? I could create the partition back in my Solaris installation, but I can't see the /dev/hda,c in FreeBSD. So it wouldn't help - should they just be there by default on CD boot? I got the TAR part.=20 But how do I modify my boot record to boot from my new partition? Is there any documentation or step-by-step SPARC novices (Im good with FreeBSD, but not so hot with sparc hardware). Any good references anyone has found online? I guess not as SPARC and BSD haven't been mixed by many folks. LMK what you've found. > Well, if you find it hard to install you could always make=20 > sysinstall work :) Hmm.. I would if I could! :) Thank you from Canada! (I know Jake is in Canada too) Steve B. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message
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