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

Hi Paolo,

I did it from Debian :-)
- though any other OS should be identical mostly.

Sure I could publish the information.... I guess I could stick it up on 
my wiki site but would prefer a more stable place for now as my hardware 
is a bit strained currently.

Regards,


Kaya


On 11/05/2012 03:56 PM, Paolo Aglialoro wrote:
> But, after all, did you do it from debian or openbsd tftp server?
> In the first case you could publish the full config for reference, 
> it's still unpublished on the internet.
>
>
> On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 4:43 PM, Kaya Saman <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>
>     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