Re: usb boot on sparc

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?
> 
> 
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> 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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