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From: "Bruce O'Neel" <edoneel@sdf.lonestar.org>
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Subject: Re: NFS install writability on Netra t1 105
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Hi,
On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 09:24:02AM -0600, Nicholas Riley wrote:

> I've seen several reports of people actually using the FreeBSD
> installer on sparc64 (albeit in 5.x versions); is it supposed to work
> still?

Do you mean installing on a local disk?  That does work, I did it
last week after booting the CD-ROM.  

I've never tried installing on a nfs disk, I just untarred the
assorted bits from the cdrom on the nfs server.

cheers

bruce


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