Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2006 14:11:35 +0000 From: "Bruce O'Neel" <edoneel@sdf.lonestar.org> To: Gunter Wambaugh <unixgeek@six-two.net> Cc: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: netboot ultra2 Message-ID: <20060103141135.GA26209@SDF.LONESTAR.ORG> In-Reply-To: <B0AA7728-3D9F-4330-995F-A7562EAFF89F@six-two.net> References: <B0AA7728-3D9F-4330-995F-A7562EAFF89F@six-two.net>
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Hi, This is from memory how I installed FreeBSD so that it netbooted from a NetBSD system. This worked well except that NetBSD does NOT do NFS file locking (it seems) and therefore anything that wanted a file lock failed. Think cron and vipw for two examples. You already have rarp and bootparam or dhcp set up and working, right? Replace the netbsd boot.net with boot/loader Make a directory somewhere and export it to your ultra >From the iso image step over each of the directories in 6.0-RELEASE. In most of them there is a handy install.sh file which is slightly wrong for what you need to do, but gives you the idea. In the base directory, for example, cd /you/exported/root/filesystem; cat /cdrom/6.0-RELEASE/base/base.?? | tar xzpf - Repeat for all of the other directories in 6.0-RELEASE that you wish to install. edit etc files to your hearts content boot net the ultra. Re edit etc files boot net and repeat until you are happy. The email exchange that seemed to answer most of my questions starts at: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-sparc64/2005-October/003519.html good luck! cheers bruce On Sun, Dec 25, 2005 at 03:26:06PM -0600, Gunter Wambaugh wrote: > I couldn't find the answer to my problem in the archives, so here > goes. I have an ultra 2 that I wish to run FreeBSD 6 on. Prior to > the last few days, I have had zero experience with netbooting and > sparc64. I found very little documentation for netbooting the > install of FreeBSD. In my search, I found NetBSD's documentation. > Anxious to see if this box even works (it was given to me through > work), I followed those directions. I got NetBSD installed within a > couple of hours. Now that I know it _works_, how do I put FreeBSD on > here? I'm not asking for a step by step. By exporting disc1, I can > get the OS up and running, but sysinstall doesn't work properly. Can > someone give me a hint? TIA > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-sparc64 > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-sparc64-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- edoneel@sdf.lonestar.org SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org
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