Re: Keyboard fails on Sparc64 install of NetBSD 4.0.1

[Scott Dalton <secahtah%gmail.com@localhost>]

Wow, you really know your way around the docs. Sorry for my ignorance.
I don't mean to spam the list.

By the way - it worked! The installer was able to get past the point
it was hung at before. (It's still installing, but hey, at least we
got past the 'dead keyboard' issue).

Thanks again!

/Scott

2009/4/15 Soren Jacobsen <snj%pobox.com@localhost>:
> On 04/15 14:14, Scott Dalton wrote:
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Based upon what I have read, and the behaviour I have observed with
>> this Sun Blade 150, it seems as though I really have no choice but to
>> bootstrap the install via netboot (with RARP?) and use the NetBSD-5
>> candidate. The rationale behind using the netboot method would be a) I
>> don't have a working Solaris OR NetBSD formatted HDD (it was wiped
>> prior to me getting my hands on it), and b) I have had no success
>> creating a bootable CD with miniroot. If someone has some good docs on
>> that, it would be helpful. For example, when I install OpenBSD on
>> other systems, I have been able to boot a very minimal CD and then
>> grab all of the sets (.tgz format) via http.
>
> http://netbsd.org/docs/bootcd.html#sparc64image
>
> However, the simpler solution is to simply download a full ISO:
>
> ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD-daily/netbsd-5/200904140002Z/iso/sparc64cd.iso
>