FreeBSD 5.4 sparc64 netboot install?

Robert Slade bsd at bathnetworks.com
Fri Sep 9 09:25:46 PDT 2005


On Fri, 2005-09-09 at 07:08, Aaron Glenn wrote:
> On 9/8/05, Kris Kennaway <kris at obsecurity.org> wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 10:48:56PM -0700, Aaron Glenn wrote:
> > > If you can point me to a resource I've overlooked, please do so. I
> > > would greatly appreciate a hit with the cluestick on this one.
> > 
> > You don't need a special bootloader any longer.  Just use the standard
> > one.
> > 
> > Kris
> 
> Fair enough, but that isn't mentioned or documented anywhere. Posting
> to a mailing list is *always* a last resort; and yet I had to because
> I could find nothing even remotely up to date on the subject. I've
> continued to use FreeBSD for the past five years because of the
> documentation. Why isn't the netboot installation method detailed
> definitively somewhere? Is it simply because no one has updated the
> previous one, or is there another reason? If it were supported,
> shouldn't it be listed in the installation notes?
> 
> aaron.glenn

Try this:

http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.4R/installation-ia64.html

reachable from the home page - > installation notes _ > sparc64

Rob



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