Re: cd-rom / net booting netbsd-5 on v120

[Alexander Schreiber <als%thangorodrim.de@localhost>]

On Fri, May 08, 2009 at 03:14:24PM -0500, David Young wrote:
> I had the hardest time booting 5.0 on my Sun Fire V120.  I did
> eventually get it to work, so consider this a "state of NetBSD/sparc64
> report" from a new-ish user of that port.  I tried both to boot an
> ISO9660 image and to netboot.
> 
> CD-ROM Boot
> ------ ----
> 
> An "official" sparc64cd-5.0.iso boots fine.  Sysinst has some problems,
> though: I cannot navigate lists such as the one for timezones with
> up-/down-arrow, ^P/^N, j/k.  Even with sysinst broken in this way, I was
> eventually able to install the system.

Did you use the correct terminal type? I installed NetBSD 5.0 on a
SUNFire V100, booting the official CDROM and using xterm+kermit to
access the serial console. Set the installer console to xterm and it
worked fine.

Regards,
       Alex.
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