From owner-freebsd-sparc64@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 10 20:34:48 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A92B16A4CE for ; Thu, 10 Jun 2004 20:34:48 +0000 (GMT) Received: from radix.mware.ca (H6.C18.B96.tor.eicat.ca [66.96.18.6]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA9EF43D1D for ; Thu, 10 Jun 2004 20:34:47 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from Mykel@mWare.ca) Received: from mWare.ca (immutable.condor.lan [10.100.104.31]) by radix.mware.ca (8.12.4/8.12.4) with ESMTP id i5AKYg7E004497; Thu, 10 Jun 2004 16:34:42 -0400 Message-ID: <40C8C5E4.6040508@mWare.ca> Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2004 16:34:44 -0400 From: Mykel User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040123 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Joerg Wunsch References: <40C89CA9.40607@mWare.ca> <20040610204947.B13882@ida.interface-business.de> In-Reply-To: <20040610204947.B13882@ida.interface-business.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.1 cc: freebsd-sparc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD on an Ultra2? X-BeenThere: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the Sparc List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2004 20:34:48 -0000 This is great, I should be able to get thru this then. (Pending more information on the SCSI driver) If I do a loopback mount of the .iso, can I export that to be /cdrom as in your example? Could I then just symlink the boot image? As for the E450... well... I just want some big hardware like that :) Maybe I'll get my sister in Amsterdam to pick it up ;) Myke Joerg Wunsch wrote: >As Mykel wrote: > > >>Thing is - I know very little about netbooting, and I haven't been >>able to find much out in the first place. All I seem to find are >>Redhat things. >> >> >You need a RARP daemon (since this is what the Sun firmware uses to >find out about its own IP address), a DHCP server (that's what FreeBSD >uses to find about its boot parameters -- Solaris would use >rpc.bootparamd instead), and a TFTP server to supply the bootstrap. >Finally (and obviously), you need an NFS server supplying the >filesystem(s). > >Configuring the RARP daemon is simple: setup /etc/ethers, and enable >it in your /etc/inetd.conf. If you've got an ethernet interface with >more than one IP address, you might want to obtain FreeBSD's latest >version of rarpd. > >Here's a snippet of dhcpd.conf (ISC DHCP) I've been using to netboot >one of my machines: > >host HOSTNAME { > hardware ethernet 08:00:20:XX:XX:XX; > fixed-address HOSTNAME; > option host-name "HOSTNAME"; > always-reply-rfc1048 on; > filename "kernel"; > option root-path "SERVERIPADDRESS:/cdrom"; >} > >HOSTNAME is the intented name of your host (should be in DNS in order >to be used for `fixed-address', too). Note the use of an IP address >for SERVERIPADDRESS -- this avoids the requirement of DNS lookups when >mounting the root FS. In the above case, the boot server was serving >the image of the installation CD-ROM for a machine that was unwilling >to boot directly off that CD. (You can read about it in the archives >of this list.) > >The TFTP server must be the same machine that runs rarpd, and the boot >image must have the hexadecimal client's IP address as its name (using >the TFTP daemon's default directory, typically /tftpboot). The actual >file to supply is /boot/loader (right from the CD-ROM in my case). >This is normally done using a symlink from /tftpboot/loader to >/tftpboot/C0A80301 (example: 192.168.3.1). > >That's about all, type "boot net" then on your client. > > > >>Once the OS is installed... does it still need to be netboot? >> >> > >I think so, since the SCSI controller isn't supported at all (as >I understand the docs). > > > >>PS: If anyone needs to have an E450 disposed of, feel free to ship it to >>me ;) >> >> > >I've got an E450 as my machine to play with FreeBSD/sparc64... but >even if I could give it away, shipping it overseas alone would >probably exceed the current value of that machine. It's large and >heavy. > > >