Subject: Alternative ways to Install
To: None <port-sparc64@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Stephen Young <youngsw@gmail.com>
List: port-sparc64
Date: 01/10/2005 20:32:51
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Hello everyone, I am new to a few things, this list, sun workstations 
and netbsd :D  I have used freebsd, openbsd, and linux in the past, but 
this is my first install of netbsd.  I have heard so many good things 
about it.

I am wanting to install netbsd on a sun ultra 10 workstation, I have 
the open boot bios configured as far as I can tell, aliases set up for 
harddrive and cdroms.

I followed the faq on setting up a boot cdrom, but I do not have access 
to the sunlabel utility.  I am running on a powerbook with os 10.3.7.  
Also the ISOs downloaded from the ftp site didn't work for me after 
burning them (not sure if they were bootable or not).

I noticed there is no floppy drive support at this time.

Looks like my options are to get parts together to get a workstation 
with a burner and install the i386 version and prepare the sparc64 iso 
and burn it.  Or find a way to get the harddisk itself set up with a 
kernel and some drivers so I can access the cdrom and finish the 
installation or something.

I have searched the docs, and faqs on netbsd.org and did google 
searches and could not locate information that helps me much in my 
situation.

Any of you veterans have ideas of how I can go about solving this ?

Thanks for your time and your help,

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Stephen Young

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