[nycbug-talk] OT- OpenBSD on Sun Netra

[Okan Demirmen]

In addition to Anthony's way, if you have another OS installed on those
pizza boxes, drop miniroot36.fs into the swap slice and boot from b -
other easy way...cheers.

Okan

On Thu 2004.09.02 at 07:15 -0500, Anthony Sofia wrote:
> I run NetBSD on an ss5 pizza box, and I always do a network install. It takes
> maybe half an hour to get the services setup, booting via openprom is as
> simple as doing 'boot net', then pull down the system via ftp using the 
> installer. 
> 
> (I know I didn't answer your question, but incase you don't quickly find
> a cdrom drive you have other options =).
> 
> On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 08:00:13AM -0400, michael said:
> >Off Topic
> >
> >I want to load OpenBSD on some old Sun pizza boxes.  It was suggested
> >that the easiest way is to get a CD drive and boot from that.
> >
> >I'm looking for a Sun External SCSI CD.
> >Does anyone have one they want to sell me?
> >
> >I'll come get it..
> >
> >I found 2 on ebay but I don't want to wait a week.
> >Michael
> >
> >
> >p.s.  here's machine info if curious...
> >
> >UNAME     : SunOS ns1 5.9 Generic_112233-02 sun4u sparc 
> >SUNW,UltraSPARC-IIi-cEngine
> >
> >KERNEL    : 64-bit sparcv9 kernel modules 
> >MEMORY    : 256 Megabytes
> >BANNER    : Netra t1 (UltraSPARC-IIi 440MHz)
> >
> 
> Anthony Sofia (anthony at dryhump.net)
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