From owner-freebsd-sparc Wed Mar 27 12:46:48 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-sparc@freebsd.org Received: from freesbee.wheel.dk (freesbee.wheel.dk [193.162.159.97]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 755DC37B41C for ; Wed, 27 Mar 2002 12:46:21 -0800 (PST) Received: by freesbee.wheel.dk (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 379015F68; Wed, 27 Mar 2002 21:46:20 +0100 (CET) Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 21:46:20 +0100 From: Jesper Skriver To: Steve Barkey Cc: freebsd-sparc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installing and Ideas Message-ID: <20020327214620.A94340@FreeBSD.org> References: <6F23C7A733C4E94DB92C77EF1C6DA4D9444D@iron.alexin.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <6F23C7A733C4E94DB92C77EF1C6DA4D9444D@iron.alexin.ca>; from sbarkey@alexin.ca on Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 03:02:33PM -0500 X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B88 9CE8 66E9 E631 C9C5 5EB4 22AB F0EC F956 1C31 X-PGP-Public-Key: http://freesbee.wheel.dk/~jesper/gpgkey.pub Sender: owner-freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 03:02:33PM -0500, Steve Barkey wrote: > Hey Everyone! > > I finally got my 20020321 system booted by changing the cdroms and > unplugging the floppy drive. Who knows why. > > Anyway: I boot up fine, but I can't find instructions anywhere on > loading the system right onto a partition and booting from it. Is this > possible yet??? Yes, disklabel and newfs your disk, and untar the distribution onto it, it's described at http://people.freebsd.org/~bmah/relnotes/CURRENT/installation-sparc64.html /Jesper -- Jesper Skriver, jesper(at)skriver(dot)dk - CCIE #5456 Work: Network manager @ AS3292 (Tele Danmark DataNetworks) Private: FreeBSD committer @ AS2109 (A much smaller network ;-) One Unix to rule them all, One Resolver to find them, One IP to bring them all and in the zone to bind them. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message