Freebsd sparc network install

This will allow you to see the file name you need to use for the loader. Error replies by the TFTP server are most often due to incorrect file permissions. The Ethernet address must be the same like the one in the TFTP example above, but it is specified differently: also in hexadecimal notation, but without colons for the example above, this would be ba0b92d4.

The strings given in the bf and hd properties are assembled to the boot file name. If your kernel is named differently or you use another directory, change these values as required.

If you are booting using NFS, remove the bf and hd settings or change them to specify the directory and file inside the NFS root hierarchy in which the kernel will reside. The name of the host entry is conventionally the host name without the domain appended. Note that bootpd conflicts with dhcpd. The filename option corresponds to the concatenation of bf and hd above. The ethernet address is specified in hexadecimal with colons, just like in the rarpd example above.

If the name given in option host-name is resolvable, i. Place the kernel in the directory specified using bf and hd in the bootpd propertiess or the corresponding dhcpd options as described above. That should be all that is needed. If all goes well, you can now boot the kernel from the sparc64 by dropping into OpenFirmware as described above.

Now, just type boot net and the system should boot. Specifically, the loader is retrieved via TFTP, it does then do a bootp request and will proceed to load the kernel. Then, it should wait 10 seconds for user input and proceed to execute the kernel. The most common problems are bad file permissions.

Also note that rarpd will not answer to packets under some circumstances, refer to the manual page for details. FreeBSD disk labels must currently be created by hand, as sysinstall is not yet available on sparc The distribution files are sized so that a floppy disk will hold a single file.

Each distribution should go into its own subdirectory on the floppy, e. Important: The bin. When putting distributions onto floppies, the distname. When installing from tape, the installation program expects the files to be simply tar'ed onto it, so after fetching all of the files for the distributions you're interested in, simply use tar 1 to get them onto the tape with a command something like this:. When you go to do the installation, you should also make sure that you leave enough room in some temporary directory which you'll be allowed to choose to accommodate the full contents of the tape you've created.

Due to the non-random access nature of tapes, this method of installation requires quite a bit of temporary storage. You should expect to require as much temporary storage as you have stuff written on tape. Note: When going to do the installation, the tape must be in the drive before booting from the boot floppies. Now create a boot floppy as described in Section 1. After making the boot floppies as described in the first section, you can load the rest of the installation over a network using one of 3 types of connections: serial port, parallel port, or Ethernet.

SLIP support is rather primitive, and is limited primarily to hard-wired links, such as a serial cable running between two computers.

The link must be hard-wired because the SLIP installation doesn't currently offer a dialing capability.

If you need to dial out with a modem or otherwise dialog with the link before connecting to it, then the PPP utility should be used instead. You may also need to know your own IP address, though PPP supports dynamic address negotiation and may be able to pick up this information directly from your ISP if they support it.

You will also need to know your IP address on the network, the netmask value for your subnet and the name of your machine. Your system administrator can tell you which values are appropriate to your particular network setup. If you will be referring to other hosts by name rather than IP address, you'll also need a name server and possibly the address of a gateway if you're using PPP, it's your provider's IP address to use in talking to it.

If you do not know the answers to these questions then you should really probably talk to your system administrator first before trying this type of installation. Using a randomly chosen IP address or netmask on a live network is almost guaranteed not to work, and will probably result in a lecture from said system administrator.

If you have a poor quality Ethernet card which suffers from very slow transfer rates, you may also wish to toggle the appropriate Options flag. Other NFS servers may have different conventions. If you are getting Permission Denied messages from the server then it's likely that you don't have this properly enabled. A full menu of reasonable choices for almost any location in the world is provided in the FTP site menu during installation.

A URL can contain a hostname or an IP address, so something like the following would work in the absence of a name server:. This will not work through most firewalls but will often work best with older FTP servers that do not support passive mode. If your connection hangs with passive mode, try this one. This option is best for users to pass through firewalls that do not allow incoming connections on random port addresses.

The proxy will translate the requests and send them to the FTP server. You must specify the hostname of the proxy in addition to the FTP server. A typical FreeBSD distribution directory looks something like this exact details may vary depending on version, architecture, and other factors :.

These same files are contained in the first CDROM of a multi-disk set, but they are laid out slightly differently on the disk. The live filesystem is useful when repairing or troubleshooting an existing FreeBSD installation see Section 4 for how to use this.

It is easy to generate a set of 1. The rest of the data needed during the installation will be obtained automatically based on your selections. If you've never installed FreeBSD before, you also want to read the entirety of this document the installation instructions file. If you're trying to do some other type of installation or are merely curious about how a distribution is organized, what follows is a more thorough description of some of these items in more detail:. HTM and should be read before starting an installation.

The base , catpages , crypto , dict , doc , games , info , manpages , proflibs , and src directories contain the primary distribution components of FreeBSD itself and are split into smaller files for easy packing onto floppies should that be necessary. The compat1x , compat20 , compat21 , compat22 , compat3x , and compat4x directories contain distributions for compatibility with older releases and are distributed as single gzip'd tar files - they can be installed during release time or later by running their install.

Packages may be installed from the packages directory by running the command:. The Ports Collection may be installed like any other distribution and requires about MB unpacked. Last of all, the tools directory contains various DOS tools for discovering disk geometries, installing boot managers and the like.

It is purely optional and provided only for user convenience. If all goes well, you can now boot the kernel from the sparc by dropping into OpenFirmware if your box boots another OS automatically, press L1-A or Stop-A to get there, or send a break over the serial console.

Now, just type boot net and The Right Thing should happen. Specifically, the loader is retrieved via tftp, it does then do a bootp request and will proceed to load the kernel. Then, it should wait 10 seconds and proceed to execute the kernel. The most common problems are bad file permissions. Also note that rarpd will not answer to packets under some circumstances, refer to the man page for details. A tarball with many static userland binaries is available here.

This does not contain init , which you can get here. Don't forget to adapt rc. That should get the machine to multi user mode if I haven't forgotten anything. There are some binaries missing in the tarball awk for example , so some things might be broken. You can use an empty partition or one where the files in the archive do not collide with existing ones.