netbooting FreeBSD/sparc64?

[Greg Lewis]

On Wed, Mar 31, 2004 at 09:27:27PM -0600, Eric Schnoebelen wrote:
> Is it possible to network boot FreeBSD/sparc64?  I've not been
> able to find ay directions on the process (actually, the needed
> files -- I know how to netboot sparc[64]'s.. :)

I have a Ultra 10 which netboots FreeBSD (5.2), so the answer is yes :)

> The closest thing I've come up with is the 5.0-DP1 installation
> notes, but the loader files listed there are long gone of the
> ftp site.

I just unpacked the installation sets I wanted onto the NFS server
I am using and then used the /boot/loader from that.  Just copy it
into /tftpboot and then point DHCP to it and you should be fine.
You'll need to tweak things a little since sysinstall hasn't run
obviously.

Which reminds me, I should update to 5.2.1.

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