usb boot on sparc

[Chris Ross]

Additionally, if netboot or pre-loaded disk doesn't work, I've resorted to
opening up the machine and stringing a CD-ROM drive borrowed from elsewhere
for the purposes of just getting it loaded.  Your milage may vary.

            - Chris

On Fri, Jan 04, 2019 at 11:22:50AM -0500, Kurt Lidl wrote:
> Well, you can netboot the host, assuming you have control of some other 
> host on the same network segment.  It's a little fiddly to setup, but 
> not impossible.
> 
> Or, you could get a disk image of an already installed machine, and just 
> 'dd' that onto a disk that could be inserted into the machine you want 
> to run on.
> 
> If you only have the single sparc64 machine, and no other host to help 
> you get it installed, you are probably out of luck.
> 
> -Kurt
> 
> On 1/4/19 10:41 AM, Maciej Jan Broniarz wrote:
> > Ok, and if a device has no cdrom how can i boot the installer?
> > 
> > 
> > ----- Oryginalna wiadomość -----
> > Od: "Kurt Lidl" <lidl at FreeBSD.org>
> > Do: freebsd-sparc64 at freebsd.org
> > Wysłane: piątek, 4 styczeń 2019 16:14:48
> > Temat: Re: usb boot on sparc
> > 
> > On 1/4/19 8:27 AM, Maciej Jan Broniarz wrote:
> >> I am trying to install FreeBSD on sparc64. Is there a way to boot Sun Fire v125 or higher server via usb?
> >> Or is the netboot and cdrom the only way
> > 
> > None of the models of sparc64 that FreeBSD runs on are capable of
> > booting off the USB ports.
> > 
> > After you get FreeBSD installed, the ports work fine.  Although slow, as
> > they are USB 1.1.
> > 
> > -Kurt
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