MirOS Manual: install.sparc(7)

INSTALL.SPARC(7)             BSD Reference Manual             INSTALL.SPARC(7)

NAME

     instal.sparc - stub installation instructions for the sparc architecture

SYNOPSIS

     /install

DESCRIPTION

     This manual page describes how to install the MirOS operating system on a
     sparc (sun4c, sun4m) machine.

OBTAINING INSTALLATION MEDIA

     The MirOS homepage (see below) contains a comprehensive list of possibil-
     ities to get bootable installation media. In many cases, you will down-
     load MirOS from the internet via HTTP or BitTorrent. On some conferences
     and fairs, you can also get CDs directly from the developers. You can
     also mail them to have a CD sent to you if you don't have broadband.

     For more information, refer to the install.i386(7) manual page for now.

     There is no floppy image for the sparc architecture, boot from a CD-ROM
     image (either the full CD or the minimal cdrom10.iso image), or netboot a
     bsd.rd ELF format gzip'd kernel using boot, formerly called boot.net, or
     netboot a directly bootable bsd.rd.net a.out format kernel.

NETBOOTING

     This section is a stub. For now, refer to the OpenBSD documentation at
     http://pub.allbsd.org/OpenBSD/3.5/sparc/INSTALL.sparc for details or ask
     in IRC. You can usually replace the
           server# ln -s boot.MACHINE.OpenBSD.$KARCH 8273900B.$KARCH
     line with
           server$ sudo ln -s bsd.rd.net 8273900B.$KARCH
     to make use of our netbootable kernels.

PARTITIONING

     The sparc architecture does not use MBR partitioning, so that you can
     skip reading about the fdisk utility in the i386 instructions.

INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS

     Please see the install.i386(7) manual page for a detailled walkthrough.
     This manual page currently is only a stub.

SEE ALSO

     boot_sparc(8), disklabel(8), diskless(8)

     The MirOS homepage: http://mirbsd.de/

HISTORY

     Support for the sparc architecture first appeared in MirOS #7ter. It re-
     appeared in MirOS #10, promoted to a fully supported architecture.

MirOS BSD #10-current           March 3, 2008                                1

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