Install on SunFire V210

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davorin

Good evenin'...

Is it possible to install latest FreeBSD on a SunFire v210 which has no video card and CDROM installed?

Just with a serial connection and a USB stick holding the FreeBSD image?


I just don't want to go the Debian path ;-)
 
Seen this list :-)

Just haven't found anything if it would support installing from a USB stick (and how it should be prepared) and with a serial console only..
 
davorin said:
Just haven't found anything if it would support installing from a USB stick (and how it should be prepared) and with a serial console only..
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Serial console isn't the issue. I'm just not sure it's even possible to boot a SunFire from USB. It's been a few years since I last touched on of these beasts.
 
That's what I feared...so USB CD-ROM is the only option then...

Or maybe via BOOTP from a locally connected laptop running TFTP?
 
davorin said:
Or maybe via BOOTP from a locally connected laptop running tftp?
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That would definitely work but does require some effort to get going.
 
Remember from the old SparcStation days where the boot file had to be named with reverse MAC address notation (o;
 
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