INSTALL.SPARC(7) BSD Reference Manual INSTALL.SPARC(7)
install.sparc - stub installation instructions for the sparc architecture
/install
This manual page describes how to install the MirBSD operating system on
a sparc (sun4c, sun4m) machine.
The MirBSD homepage (see below) contains a comprehensive list of possi-
bilities to get bootable installation media. In many cases, you will
download MirOS from the internet via HTTP or BitTorrent. On some confer-
ences 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.
You can either boot from a pretty minimal floppy image floppy10.fs, 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.
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. Note that "8273900B" is the hexa-
decimal, big-endian representation of the IPv4 address.
The sparc architecture does not use MBR partitioning, so that you can
skip reading about the fdisk utility in the i386 instructions. On the
contrary, rather than storing a native BSD disklabel in sector #1 inside
the MirBSD partition, a Sun disklabel is stored in sector #0 of the medi-
um. It is important that the 'a' slice begin at sector #0 as well.
Please see the install.i386(7) manual page for a detailed walkthrough.
This manual page currently is only a stub.
boot_sparc(8), disklabel(8), diskless(8)
The MirOS homepage: http://mirbsd.de/
Support for the sparc architecture first appeared in MirBSD #7ter. It re-
appeared in MirBSD #10, although the floppy image came back only with
MirBSD #11, promoted to a fully supported architecture.
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