Installing on a Sun Ultra 10

Kris Kennaway kris at obsecurity.org
Wed Jul 9 13:35:24 PDT 2003


On Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 04:48:55PM +0100, Wayne Pascoe wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Does anyone have any tips for installing FreeBSD onto a Sun ultra10? I
> can boot from the CD-ROM and get to a screen asking me to pick a
> terminal. I've tried ANSI, VT-100 and FreeBSD terminal (mono). I can't
> use the arrow keys to select sysinstall options in any of these.
> 
> I could start a standard install in ANSI mode by pressing 2 and then
> enter, however I couldn't do anything in the Disk menu.
> 
> Any advice would be greatfully received.
> 

The local console is not yet supported (it will be in 5.2)..see the
release notes and hardware guide.  It's recommended to use the serial
console to perform the installation.

Kris
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