Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2003 07:38:59 -0500 (EST) From: peter@larkowski.net To: freebsd-sparc@freebsd.org Subject: Netboot? Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.44.0311190729230.8798-100000@decstation.larkowski.net>
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Is netbooting officially supported as an installation method? Also, has anyone tried a snapshot from current.freebsd.org? I downloaded the 5.1-CURRENT-20031118-JPSNAP snapshot. I setup rarp with /boot/loader and I setup an nfs exported partition with the kernel and the contents of mfsroot.gz. It boots fine, and mounts the nfs root, although it's readonly and sysinstall complains. I started the emergency shell and used boot_crunch to remount root read-write (which seems to work fine). This quiets sysinstall, but it still errors out when it comes time to actually make filesystems. It doesn't say anything useful (only that there was an error), so I don't really know what's happening. Once it "Finishes with errors", I can't start the shell anymore. Am I doing something unsupported, or am I just doing something wrong? Any pointers? -p
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