Re: net install downloads bootloader program then complains about RARP request?

On 11/05/2012 02:41 PM, Stuart Henderson wrote:
> On 2012/11/05 14:26, Kaya Saman wrote:
>> sunburst root=192.168.1.116:/iso/5.2/sparc64 swap=192.168.1.116:/mnt
>>
>> which is now fine and can boot the kernel however, in order to try to
>> install the OS I exported the CD via NFS.
> You're booting bsd, you need to boot bsd.rd, then you can just do a
> standard installation via the usual installer. Either tell the machine
> to boot bsd.rd (something like boot net:bsd.rd iirc, but I can never
> remember exactly what, unfortunately the sparc64 boot loader doesn't
> let you choose the kernel as most other arch do so you have to
> catch it in ofw and do it there), or just copy bsd.rd to bsd in
> the nfs tree.
>
> You should be able to mount and use the nfs-exported tgz if you want
> (the sparc64 ramdisk does have nfs client), though I normally just do a
> standard http install.
>

Thanks so much Stuart, I've managed to successfully install OpenBSD 5.2 
now which is using the GENERIC.mp kernel so I guess all is well :-)

Now I just need to figure out while using it as router/firewall/nat if I 
will get better transfer speeds then my Netra T105 so that I can have a 
proper firewall again for my DSL WAN link.


Regards,


Kaya