On Sat, Jun 23, 2001 at 10:36:41PM -0400, Andrew Falanga wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> 
>     It's a bunch of firsts for me.  New to Sparc's and new to NetBSD.
> Actually, got in to NetBSD because OpenBSD doesn't yet support the Ultra
> Sparc.  Anyway, so I got this Ultra Sparc and I can't do anything with
> it yet.  It was donated to a Catholic School by Lockheed Martin, and in
> turn, they gave it to me.  LH wiped the HDD before giving it away (can't
> blame them) so there's no OS.
> 
>     I've followed the instructions in install.html, but first off, I
> didn't see any directory under ../sparc64/binary/installation called
> ../floppy so I thought that perhaps ./misc would be enough.  Perhaps
> something had changed.  Anyway, I'd formated (without /s) a floppy in my
> Win 98 box to copy these things on to.  Did the copy of every file in
> that directory to a:, and then through the disk in the Ultra Sparc.
> (Just wanted to see if I could get something to boot.)

Sorry, but you can't install NetBSD/sparc64 from floppy yet. If you have an
Unix machine around, the best way is probably to netboot. See diskless(8)
on a NetBSD system. You can also get the man page from
http://www.netbsd.org/

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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