Subject: Re: newbie sparc64 installation
To: Alex <akruijff@dds.nl>
From: Martin Husemann <martin@duskware.de>
List: port-sparc64
Date: 10/06/2002 13:47:31 
On Sun, Oct 06, 2002 at 01:18:50PM +0200, Alex wrote:

> There are only two *_bootable.iso snf jet there are more than two
> bootble platforms. I can't tell however if the image sparc64cd.iso is
> bootable; is it?

Kind of (note I didn't try the latest version there). We only recently
figured out the correct way to build those CDs, and hopefully a sparc64
bootable CD will appear soon.

You can boot the current image with "boot cdrom:f" and when asked for 
the
root file system, answer cd0f. Once you get into sysinst, exit it and
do

  mount -u -r /dev/cd0f /

(to avoid lots of errors because you can't write to the CD)

From there you could do a manual install (sysinst won't work because it 
expects
a writeable / file system).

If you know netbsd this is easy, but if not I'd suggest to wait for a 
real
bootable sparc64 CD image.


Martin

--
Tanks for your reply Martin. I have a year experiance with FreeBSD but 
am new at NetBSD. I'm looking to use the software for a project and 
waiting for NetBSD/sparc64 to become bootable isn't a option. Do you 
know of any document that handles this?

Tanks again,
Alex