Re: A little more help for a new sparc user

Good to know that I do not need to upgrade them.

I got really close, got the Solaris install to boot and downloaded the
patch.  but am unable to load the driver for the flashprom in the install
because the install mounts /etc RO.

I wont waste my time upgrading the firmware :)

Thanks Nick, Bruce, Miod for the pointers.

Erin
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On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 6:26 AM, Miod Vallat <[email protected]> wrote:

> > Well I got the install up and running an have my netra X1 running
> openBSD.
> >
> > In the install.sparc64 file in mentions applying the latest firmware
> patch
> > for openbsd to run.
>
> But only if OpenBSD doesn't boot and work correctly. This part of the
> installation notes was written with Ultra 1 in mind, where the earliest
> systems would not be able to run a 64 bit kernel correctly without a
> firmware upgrade.
>
> On modern systems (anything using UltraSPARC-II or better processors,
> really) there should be no reason to upgrade your current firmware.
>
> Miod
>



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