Subject: Re: NetBsd Installation for sparc64
To: mansoor alam <gul_khan_99@yahoo.com>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
List: port-sparc
Date: 01/14/2002 11:00:16
On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 12:58:10AM -0800, mansoor alam wrote:
> Hi all,
> This is my first posting on this mailing list because
> I am very new on NetBsd.I have a SPARCENGINE(tm)
> Ultra(tm)AXi machine (Ultra SPARC-IIi 440 MHz).Since
> machine has 4 hard disk and 1GB ram.
> I have a NetBSD-1.5.2-multiboot CD for sparc64
> architecture.
> I want to install NetBSD on my machine from scratch
> and I had solaris on that machine but I formate the
> hardisk and no operating system is present on that
> machine.
> The CD is not bootable and I need a installation
> procedure for above machine.
> How to make a bootable floppies for sparc64 and where
> to get the bootable floppies images?.
> What is installation procedure for sparc64?.

You should have the install procedure on your CD, "INSTALL.txt" in the sparc64
directory. I don't know if there are bootable floppies for sparc64,
I always installed from network boot.

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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