Problem installing on Enterprise 250

[Ken Smith]

On Tue, Mar 30, 2004 at 02:51:39PM -0700, Brandon Shiers wrote:

> I have a Enterprise 250 and am having problems getting FreeBSD 
> installed on the box.  I know I have to use the serial console to 
> install, due to lack of support for Sun keyboards/terminals.  My box 
> does not have a floppy drive on it, so booting via CD is my only 
> option.  Has anybody made an install CD ISO that has the required boot 
> options enabled to use the serial port as the console device so I can 
> get FreeBSD installed on my machine, or any other options/pointers for 
> me?

I recently did an install on an Enterprise-250 using the snapshot
CD available on many of the FTP mirror sites in the "snapshots/sparc64"
directory.  That CD has the 64-bit time_t change made in it so at this
point it is probably the best thing to try first.

That said, I haven't tried the normal 5.2.1 CD's in an Enterprise-250
but I don't know of any reason they should not work.

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