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philo_neo
June 21st, 2009, 11:15
hello, I would like to install freebsd on an ultra station 5, j' have to download the distribution for sparc, but in the boot j' do not arrive has to start CD of boot. t' can; one m' to help when with walk?


Philippe
Oko
June 21st, 2009, 16:43
hello, I would like to install freebsd on an ultra station 5, j' have to download the distribution for sparc, but in the boot j' do not arrive has to start CD of boot. t' can; one m' to help when with walk?


Philippe

Sparc stations have different (better) boot sequence than x86.
Brake into firmware PROM. Type


{ok} boot cdroom


The rest of installation looks the same as x86. When you finish
halt the machine and brake into PROM again.
In order to boot next time from the hard disk just put the path to your kernel.


{ok} setenv boot-file bsd
philo_neo
June 22nd, 2009, 18:06
can you tell me about bootfile on freebsd 7.2 lastversion

syl
philo
Oko
June 22nd, 2009, 19:18
can you tell me about bootfile on freebsd 7.2 lastversion

syl
philo

No, I am an OpenBSD user. I can tall you everything about OpenBSD boot process. By the way OpenBSD has far, far better support for Sparc than any other OS except Solaris 10.
bigrob76
July 13th, 2009, 18:49
I have 6.4 running on a Ultra 5, and see no support issues.
What problems do you run into with FreeBSD on SPARC Oko?
blah
July 18th, 2009, 09:37
What problems do you run into with FreeBSD on SPARC?For me it was the lack of wifi support in the latest release. Hopefully it will change in 8.0
juliamccorben
November 25th, 2009, 18:11
a search on the topic leaded me here, i have the same problem, no wifi support. still no solution found
kpedersen
November 27th, 2009, 00:13
What problems do you run into with FreeBSD on SPARC Oko?

Only one problem... and that is that the SPARC commit team hasn't been whipped into submission by Theo :p
winstonw
July 17th, 2010, 02:57
FreeBSD and NetBSD both stopped responding during install, so I installed OpenBSD, which unfortunately doesn't have a driver for my Creator Pro that does DRI or Xv. <edit>I should note, OpenBSD runs without locking up</edit>

When compared to Solaris or even Linux, BSDs are lacking comparable multiprocess and SMP performance perceived by the end user. The only BSD project I've seen a huge push is DragonFly.

I think I might just install Solaris again.