How to install FreeBSD on headless UltraSPARC-II
nocturnal
nocturnal at swehack.se
Tue Apr 26 06:26:57 PDT 2005
Hi
I have an ultrasparc here with debian linux, it was installed quite some
time ago so no one here remembers the password. The machine has no
floppy or monitor. I've managed to connect to it through a serial null
modem cable and i can see the boot process but i don't know the linux
password so i can't login after it's booted, it wont boot from any cd
and as i have no monitor i don't know if there is some kinda bios option
for that before the things i see through the serial cable connection.
I want to install FreeBSD 5.3 on it, my boss says he installed linux on
it using a tftp bootimage and booting over the network or something like
that. I can't find any good links for this and the ones i find i don't
understand so thats why i was wondering if anyone here could help me.
These are the resources i've found so far.
http://sunsite.ulatina.ac.cr/Unix/Linux/Splack/sparc/splack-8.0/BOOTING.TXT
http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-6.0-Manual/install-guide/doc123.html
http://lists.debian.org/debian-sparc/1999/02/msg00065.html
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