FreeBSD on an Ultra2?

My...@mware.ca

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Jun 10, 2004, 1:39:41 PM6/10/04

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I've got a decent U2 (18GB, 512MB, some fancy frame buffer) sitting here
on my desk and I don't want to play with Solaris anymore...

From what I've read this machine can only be netbooted with FreeBSD as
result of a SCSI problem.

Thing is - I know very little about netbooting, and I haven't been able
to find much out in the first place. All I seem to find are Redhat things.

So - I'm basically asking for someone to either help me step-by-step
and/or hold my hand thru netboot/netinstall. I'm clueless at this.

I have at my disposal a pair of x86 fBSD machines and my Slackware laptop.

Once the OS is installed... does it still need to be netboot?

Asking really nice!,

Myke

PS: If anyone needs to have an E450 disposed of, feel free to ship it to
me ;)
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wi...@csociety.org

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Jun 10, 2004, 3:02:39 PM6/10/04

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On Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 08:49:47PM +0200, Joerg Wunsch wrote:
> I think so, since the SCSI controller isn't supported at all (as
> I understand the docs).

Actually, this changed very recently with Scott's import of the
esp(4) driver, ported from NetBSD.

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My...@mware.ca

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Jun 10, 2004, 3:41:00 PM6/10/04

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Will Andrews wrote:

>On Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 08:49:47PM +0200, Joerg Wunsch wrote:
>
>
>>I think so, since the SCSI controller isn't supported at all (as
>>I understand the docs).
>>
>>
>
>Actually, this changed very recently with Scott's import of the
>esp(4) driver, ported from NetBSD.
>
>regards,
>
>

This /sounds/ encouraging to me, but does this just solve the
pre-install boot situation or the installation too?

Can you point me at an appropriate ISO with this fix? (or tell me which
version to look for)

Thanks

Myke

arde...@ww.uni-erlangen.de

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Jun 10, 2004, 7:19:50 PM6/10/04

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Hi,

>Actually, this changed very recently with Scott's import of the
>esp(4) driver, ported from NetBSD.

Good news. This means that also my Ultra 1 is now supported (except
LANCE network card). In case some snapshot occurs I'll give it a try.

Regards,

G. Ardelean

j...@ida.interface-business.de

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Jun 11, 2004, 3:56:41 AM6/11/04

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As Gheorghe Ardelean wrote:

> Good news. This means that also my Ultra 1 is now supported (except
> LANCE network card).

There used to be a lnc(4) driver in the tree... Yup, it's still
there, /sys/dev/lnc. Perhaps it could be taught to attach to your bus
system (Sbus, I suppose)?

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arde...@ww.uni-erlangen.de

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Jun 11, 2004, 4:53:24 AM6/11/04

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On Fri, 11 Jun 2004, Joerg Wunsch wrote:

> As Gheorghe Ardelean wrote:
>
> > Good news. This means that also my Ultra 1 is now supported (except
> > LANCE network card).
>
> There used to be a lnc(4) driver in the tree... Yup, it's still
> there, /sys/dev/lnc. Perhaps it could be taught to attach to your bus
> system (Sbus, I suppose)?

Yes we are missing the sbus frontend, but last time I've tried to use a
lnc card on i386 (AT-1500FT with PCnet-ISA II/AM79C961AKC) this was not
recognized at all. Indeed the chip is not in the list (if_lncvar.h) and I
had no idea how to add this chip also.

Regards,

Gheorghe Ardelean