From owner-freebsd-sparc64@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 16 01:09:12 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A1FBB106566B for ; Fri, 16 Oct 2009 01:09:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dhutty@allgoodbits.org) Received: from smtp.allgoodbits.com (allgoodbits.com [97.107.132.102]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3EDD18FC15 for ; Fri, 16 Oct 2009 01:09:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.allgoodbits.org (pool-74-109-205-131.pitbpa.ftas.verizon.net [74.109.205.131]) by smtp.allgoodbits.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D4FC4E794; Thu, 15 Oct 2009 21:09:11 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (mail.allgoodbits.org [127.0.0.1]) by mail.allgoodbits.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 10BB3BB3A6; Thu, 15 Oct 2009 21:09:11 -0400 (EDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at allgoodbits.org Received: from mail.allgoodbits.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail.allgoodbits.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id IzHr2fGfrMRD; Thu, 15 Oct 2009 21:09:10 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [192.168.0.200] (odysseus [192.168.0.200]) by mail.allgoodbits.org (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 5EED0BB373; Thu, 15 Oct 2009 21:09:10 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <4AD7C7B6.2070208@allgoodbits.org> Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 21:09:10 -0400 From: Duncan Hutty User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (Macintosh/20090812) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Gavin Atkinson References: <4ACFECE6.30902@allgoodbits.org> <20091010175525.E80896@ury.york.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <20091010175525.E80896@ury.york.ac.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: automated installations X-BeenThere: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the Sparc List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2009 01:09:12 -0000 Gavin Atkinson wrote: You can easily boot > from the network and install an OS using nothing more than the standard > OpenFirmware interface. Although I can't actually see any proper > documentation of this on the FreeBSD website, > http://people.freebsd.org/~murray/sparc64/install.html should be enough > for you to figure it out. Yes, this was what I was getting at. I want to be able to do 'boot net' in the openboot prom. I suppose I didn't describe correctly. Thanks for the pointer, my searching hadn't found that, perhaps because it's so old. Unfortunately, the 2 links for the loader (one for nfs and one for tftp) are dead. I wonder whether anyone can suggest how I go about creating this myself? -- Duncan Hutty