Installing from cdrom not working

[Craig Butler]

On Wed, 2009-04-29 at 07:54 -0700, Martin Alejandro Paredes Sanchez
wrote:
> El Mar 28 Abr 2009, escribió:
> > Hi Martin
> >
> > Are you seeing the error on both machines ?
> 
> yes, the same situation.
> 
> > Are you sure the download and burning was glitch free ?
> 
> i checked the SHA256 and is OK, the burning was with nero and there were no 
> error messages.
> 
> >
> > If both are failing you could try to install using the bootp method,
> > dependent on what computers you have available to you.
> 
> where can i found information about the bootp method.
I have used;

http://people.freebsd.org/~murray/sparc64/install.html

instead of downloading the loader, recursively copy /boot from the
freebsd sparc64 install cd into /tftpboot.

You don't have to worry about the userland download.

Just nfs share /tftpboot to the servers ip and make sure
the /etc/hosts, /etc/ethers, /etc/bootptab are properly populated; here
are my working examples;

[craig at b100:/tftpboot] $ cat /etc/hosts | grep blade0
10.0.0.20       blade0

[craig at b100:/tftpboot] $ cat /etc/exports 
/tftpboot  -alldirs -maproot=0 -network 10.0.0.0 -mask 255.255.255.0

[craig at b100:/tftpboot] $ cat /etc/ethers 
00:03:ba:2a:11:b8 blade0

[craig at b100:/tftpboot] $ cat /etc/bootptab 
.default:\
:bf="kernel":dn=local:ds=10.0.0.1:\
:gw=10.0.0.1:ht=ether:hd="/tftpboot/boot/kernel":hn:\
:rp="10.0.0.10:/tftpboot":\
:sm=255.255.255.0

blade0:ht=1:ha=0003ba2a11b8:tc=.default:ip=10.0.0.20:


Once all that is done and boot net issue to the sun you should see the
standard sysinstall... treat it like a normal install from there.  (I
use http for the actual install media)

If you have any problems just holla...

> >
> > I can confirm that I have install FreeBSD sparc64 from CD onto both a
> > V100 and V120's.
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Craig
> >
> 
> is ok that i used a CD-RW instead of a CD+RW, CD-R or CD+R?
Its worth a try of a normal cdr.

> is ok that i used vt100?
yes


Kind Regards

Craig Butler

> thanks for responding.
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