INSTALL.SPARC(7) BSD Reference Manual INSTALL.SPARC(7)NAMEinstall.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.
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.
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. Note that "8273900B" is the hexa-
decimal, big-endian representation of the IPv4 address.
PARTITIONING
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 MirOS 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.
INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS
Please see the install.i386(7) manual page for a detailled walkthrough.
This manual page currently is only a stub.
SEE ALSOboot_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, although the floppy image came back only with
MirOS #11, promoted to a fully supported architecture.
MirOS BSD #10-current October 30, 2008 1