Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1998 10:30:46 -0500 (CDT) From: "Paul T. Root" <proot@horton.iaces.com> To: dhw@whistle.com (David Wolfskill) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Sun Floppy? Message-ID: <199804091530.KAA16067@horton.iaces.com> In-Reply-To: <199804091416.HAA25492@pau-amma.whistle.com> from David Wolfskill at "Apr 9, 98 07:16:09 am"
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In a previous message, David Wolfskill said: > >Date: Wed, 08 Apr 1998 11:18:09 -0500 > >From: Bob Alberti <alberti@freenet.msp.mn.us> > > >Hi! I recently came into an old SparcClassic. I'd like to install FreeBSD > >on it. Is there any way to build a floppy image to start the process, > >particularly if one must use a PC to build the floppy? The machine itself > >has a blank 300 MB hard drive and no CD. > > I have no reason to believe that the machine has any provision for > booting from floppy. (Booting from a floppy, in that environment, is > even more of an unnatural act than trying to use one in multi-user > mode.) I bet you could. It's just a device to the Open Boot Prom. The problem is getting a sun kernel small enough to boot. -- Blue skies and all that. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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