Subject: Re: Alternative ways to Install
To: Stephen Young <youngsw@gmail.com>
From: Philip Jensen <phil_jensen@yahoo.com>
List: port-sparc64
Date: 01/13/2005 23:01:22
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Sounds like you are having a lot of frustration, I suggest giving up on
cutting and booting an ISO in the meantime. Netboot works for me on
fussy SPARCs check the doco here:-
http://www.netbsd.org/Documentation/network/netboot/
You may also have a problem with your Open Boot Prom, sometimes
upgrading to the latest release from Sun fixes weird seemingly unrelated
(when you read their patch release notes) problems.
cheers
Phil J
Stephen Young wrote:
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> Thank you for all of the help you gave me the other day, it got me in
> the right direction.
>
> I got cdrecord working with os x, it originally didn't like the device
> name it gave me when I did dev=help (usually worked with other os's
> :D) but I found a device it did like after researching that one more.
>
> I also got openboot working correctly, fixed the aliases. Cdrom was
> pointing to some weird device (which should have been a clue that
> something was wrong there, I never heard the cdrom reading the cd when
> I did boot cdrom).
>
> I am made progress, but ran into a little snag :)
>
> I first tried using a couple of isos I downloaded. First was the 2.0
> release, then the 1.6 release, and the workstation never booted
> those. It told me the file loaded doesn't appear to be executable.
>
> So I grabbed the sunlabel source from the link the Mouse gave me. Got
> it compiled and had to alter the sunbootcd.sh script for it to work
> (didn't like the -nq switch, but found the correct switch to use in
> the sunlabel source). Then I set up the cdsources directory like on
> the bootcd howto, and ran the script as it was shown for sparc64 and
> getting the same thing.
>
> To me it sounds like I am going to need to invest in roxio for os x or
> something, but cdrecord should work fine.
>
> Any ideas of what is going wrong ?
>
> Thanks again for the help !
>
> - --
> Stephen Young
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Sounds like you are having a lot of frustration, I suggest giving up on
cutting and booting an ISO in the meantime. Netboot works for me on
fussy SPARCs check the doco here:-<br>
<blockquote><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.netbsd.org/Documentation/network/netboot/">http://www.netbsd.org/Documentation/network/netboot/</a><br>
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You may also have a problem with your Open Boot Prom, sometimes
upgrading to the latest release from Sun fixes weird seemingly
unrelated (when you read their patch release notes) problems.<br>
<br>
cheers<br>
Phil J<br>
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Stephen Young wrote:<br>
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Thank you for all of the help you gave me the other day, it got me in
the right direction.
<br>
<br>
I got cdrecord working with os x, it originally didn't like the device
name it gave me when I did dev=help (usually worked with other os's :D)
but I found a device it did like after researching that one more.
<br>
<br>
I also got openboot working correctly, fixed the aliases. Cdrom was
pointing to some weird device (which should have been a clue that
something was wrong there, I never heard the cdrom reading the cd when
I did boot cdrom).
<br>
<br>
I am made progress, but ran into a little snag :)
<br>
<br>
I first tried using a couple of isos I downloaded. First was the 2.0
release, then the 1.6 release, and the workstation never booted those.
It told me the file loaded doesn't appear to be executable.
<br>
<br>
So I grabbed the sunlabel source from the link the Mouse gave me. Got
it compiled and had to alter the sunbootcd.sh script for it to work
(didn't like the -nq switch, but found the correct switch to use in the
sunlabel source). Then I set up the cdsources directory like on the
bootcd howto, and ran the script as it was shown for sparc64 and
getting the same thing.
<br>
<br>
To me it sounds like I am going to need to invest in roxio for os x or
something, but cdrecord should work fine.
<br>
<br>
Any ideas of what is going wrong ?
<br>
<br>
Thanks again for the help !
<br>
<br>
- --
<br>
Stephen Young
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