Hello Kaya Saman & Sparc Group, 10 months ago I started a tutorial (in german) on: how to install OpenBSD over Netboot on SunFire v210 / 240 / 245 (because my machines not have dvd)
with google you can translate the simple words quickly ... direct PDF link: http://plitc.eu/docs/PLITC_howto_de_obp_alom_netboot_solaris_sunfire_210_240_ 245_.pdf Website link: http://www.sbshosting.biz best regards Mit freundlichen Grüßen Daniel Plominski dan...@plominski.eu Waldschlößchenstraße 16 01099 Dresden PLITC.eu / SBSHosting.biz Am 05.11.2012 um 17:01 schrieb Kaya Saman <kayasa...@gmail.com>: > 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 it's still unpublished on the internet.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 [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pkcs7-signature which had a name of smime.p7s]
