FreeBSD on an Ultra2?

[Mykel]

This is great, I should be able to get thru this then. (Pending more 
information on the SCSI driver)

If I do a loopback mount of the .iso, can I export that to be /cdrom as 
in your example? Could I then just symlink the boot image?

As for the E450... well... I just want some big hardware like that :)
Maybe I'll get my sister in Amsterdam to pick it up ;)

Myke


Joerg Wunsch wrote:

>As Mykel wrote:
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>>Thing is - I know very little about netbooting, and I haven't been
>>able to find much out in the first place. All I seem to find are
>>Redhat things.
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>You need a RARP daemon (since this is what the Sun firmware uses to
>find out about its own IP address), a DHCP server (that's what FreeBSD
>uses to find about its boot parameters -- Solaris would use
>rpc.bootparamd instead), and a TFTP server to supply the bootstrap.
>Finally (and obviously), you need an NFS server supplying the
>filesystem(s).
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>Configuring the RARP daemon is simple: setup /etc/ethers, and enable
>it in your /etc/inetd.conf.  If you've got an ethernet interface with
>more than one IP address, you might want to obtain FreeBSD's latest
>version of rarpd.
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>Here's a snippet of dhcpd.conf (ISC DHCP) I've been using to netboot
>one of my machines:
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>host HOSTNAME {
>        hardware ethernet 08:00:20:XX:XX:XX;
>        fixed-address HOSTNAME;
>        option host-name "HOSTNAME";
>        always-reply-rfc1048 on;
>        filename "kernel";
>        option root-path "SERVERIPADDRESS:/cdrom";
>}
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>HOSTNAME is the intented name of your host (should be in DNS in order
>to be used for `fixed-address', too).  Note the use of an IP address
>for SERVERIPADDRESS -- this avoids the requirement of DNS lookups when
>mounting the root FS.  In the above case, the boot server was serving
>the image of the installation CD-ROM for a machine that was unwilling
>to boot directly off that CD.  (You can read about it in the archives
>of this list.)
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>The TFTP server must be the same machine that runs rarpd, and the boot
>image must have the hexadecimal client's IP address as its name (using
>the TFTP daemon's default directory, typically /tftpboot).  The actual
>file to supply is /boot/loader (right from the CD-ROM in my case).
>This is normally done using a symlink from /tftpboot/loader to
>/tftpboot/C0A80301 (example: 192.168.3.1).
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>That's about all, type "boot net" then on your client.
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>>Once the OS is installed... does it still need to be netboot?
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>I think so, since the SCSI controller isn't supported at all (as
>I understand the docs).
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>>PS: If anyone needs to have an E450 disposed of, feel free to ship it to 
>>me ;)
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>I've got an E450 as my machine to play with FreeBSD/sparc64... but
>even if I could give it away, shipping it overseas alone would
>probably exceed the current value of that machine.  It's large and
>heavy.
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