Is it easy to netboot sun fire V210 using only sparc64 iso image and intel host?

Torfinn Ingolfsen torfinn.ingolfsen at broadpark.no
Sat Apr 17 09:26:54 UTC 2010


Hello, 

On Sat, 17 Apr 2010 00:52:18 -0700
Yuri <yuri at rawbw.com> wrote:

> Sun fire V210 server won't boot from cdrom: can't open boot device, and 
> hard drives are blank.
> Is it easy/feasible to make netboot installation for it if I don't have 
> any other sparc hardware, only intel computer and standard sparc64 
> FreeBSD ISO image(s) from freebsd.org?

It is feasible to netboot a Sparc machine from any other machine that
runs FreeBSD.
But I wouldn't call it easy - at least not if you haven't done
netbooting of machines with Open Firmware before.
Here is an article I wrote a long time ago:
Netbooting a Sun machine from a FreeBSD machine
http://geekinfo.net/article.php?story=20041101004514224

HTH
-- 
Regards,
Torfinn Ingolfsen



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