HowTo Update OpenBootPROM ALOM Use Netboot Install for Solaris OpenBSD and Unix Derivate on SunFire v210 240 245

Daniel Plominski <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.openbsd.sparc
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hello Kaya Saman & Sparc Group,

10 months ago I started a tutorial (in german) on: how to install OpenBSD over
Netboot on SunFire v210 / 240 / 245 (because my machines not have dvd)

… with google you can translate the simple words quickly ...

direct PDF link:
http://plitc.eu/docs/PLITC_howto_de_obp_alom_netboot_solaris_sunfire_210_240_
245_.pdf

Website link: http://www.sbshosting.biz

best regards

Mit freundlichen Grüßen
Daniel Plominski




[email protected]
Waldschlößchenstraße 16
01099 Dresden
PLITC.eu / SBSHosting.biz

Am 05.11.2012 um 17:01 schrieb Kaya Saman <[email protected]>:

> 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 it's still unpublished on the internet.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

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