Subject: Re: Alternative ways to Install
To: None <port-sparc64@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Stephen Young <youngsw@gmail.com>
List: port-sparc64
Date: 01/12/2005 22:31:53
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Thank you for all of the help you gave me the other day, it got me in 
the right direction.

I got cdrecord working with os x, it originally didn't like the device 
name it gave me when I did dev=help (usually worked with other os's :D) 
but I found a device it did like after researching that one more.

I also got openboot working correctly, fixed the aliases.  Cdrom was 
pointing to some weird device (which should have been a clue that 
something was wrong there, I never heard the cdrom reading the cd when 
I did boot cdrom).

I am made progress, but ran into a little snag :)

I first tried using a couple of isos I downloaded.  First was the 2.0 
release, then the 1.6 release, and the workstation never booted those.  
It told me the file loaded doesn't appear to be executable.

So I grabbed the sunlabel source from the link the Mouse gave me.  Got 
it compiled and had to alter the sunbootcd.sh script for it to work 
(didn't like the -nq switch, but found the correct switch to use in the 
sunlabel source).  Then I set up the cdsources directory like on the 
bootcd howto, and ran the script as it was shown for sparc64 and 
getting the same thing.

To me it sounds like I am going to need to invest in roxio for os x or 
something, but cdrecord should work fine.

Any ideas of what is going wrong ?

Thanks again for the help !

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Stephen Young

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