Hi Paolo, I did it from Debian :-) - though any other OS should be identical mostly.
Sure I could publish the information.... I guess I could stick it up on my wiki site but would prefer a more stable place for now as my hardware is a bit strained currently. Regards, Kaya On 11/05/2012 03:56 PM, Paolo Aglialoro wrote: > But, after all, did you do it from debian or openbsd tftp server? > In the first case you could publish the full config for reference, > it's still unpublished on the internet. > > > On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 4:43 PM, Kaya Saman <kayasa...@gmail.com > <mailto:kayasa...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > On 11/05/2012 02:41 PM, Stuart Henderson wrote: > > On 2012/11/05 14:26, Kaya Saman wrote: > > sunburst root=192.168.1.116:/iso/5.2/sparc64 > swap=192.168.1.116:/mnt > > which is now fine and can boot the kernel however, in > order to try to > install the OS I exported the CD via NFS. > > You're booting bsd, you need to boot bsd.rd, then you can just > do a > standard installation via the usual installer. Either tell the > machine > to boot bsd.rd (something like boot net:bsd.rd iirc, but I can > never > remember exactly what, unfortunately the sparc64 boot loader > doesn't > let you choose the kernel as most other arch do so you have to > catch it in ofw and do it there), or just copy bsd.rd to bsd in > the nfs tree. > > You should be able to mount and use the nfs-exported tgz if > you want > (the sparc64 ramdisk does have nfs client), though I normally > just do a > standard http install. > > > Thanks so much Stuart, I've managed to successfully install > OpenBSD 5.2 now which is using the GENERIC.mp kernel so I guess > all is well :-) > > Now I just need to figure out while using it as > router/firewall/nat if I will get better transfer speeds then my > Netra T105 so that I can have a proper firewall again for my DSL > WAN link. > > > Regards, > > > Kaya
