automated installations

[Duncan Hutty-3]

I have looked into automating installation of freebsd using:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/articles/pxe/article.html
and
http://www.locolomo.org/pub/pxeboot/index.html

to achieve a setup where a new client can PXE boot into a sysinstall
scripted installation process. Everything that I can find refers to
i386/amd64 architectures.

Has this also been done for sparc64? I assume that it can if I can
create a pxeboot loader for sparc64 as described in
http://www.locolomo.org/pub/pxeboot/pxeboot.html but since I'm rather
new at this, I thought I'd ask if anyone has tried this before I spend
too much time on it.

Thanks,
Duncan Hutty
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[Gavin Atkinson]

On Fri, 9 Oct 2009, Duncan Hutty wrote:

> I have looked into automating installation of freebsd using:
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/articles/pxe/article.html
> and
> http://www.locolomo.org/pub/pxeboot/index.html
>
> to achieve a setup where a new client can PXE boot into a sysinstall scripted
> installation process. Everything that I can find refers to i386/amd64
> architectures.
>
> Has this also been done for sparc64? I assume that it can if I can create a
> pxeboot loader for sparc64 as described in
> http://www.locolomo.org/pub/pxeboot/pxeboot.html but since I'm rather new at
> this, I thought I'd ask if anyone has tried this before I spend too much time
> on it.

You'll also presumably need a network card that supports PXE booting on
sparc64.  I suspect this will be a challenge - as far as I understand it,
the boot ROM on PXE network cards contain i386 code.

However, I'm not sure why you'd want to do this.  You can easily boot from
the network and install an OS using nothing more than the standard
OpenFirmware interface.  Although I can't actually see any proper
documentation of this on the FreeBSD website,
http://people.freebsd.org/~murray/sparc64/install.html should be enough
for you to figure it out.

Thanks,

Gavin
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[Duncan Hutty-3]

Gavin Atkinson wrote:
  You can easily boot
> from the network and install an OS using nothing more than the standard
> OpenFirmware interface.  Although I can't actually see any proper
> documentation of this on the FreeBSD website,
> http://people.freebsd.org/~murray/sparc64/install.html should be enough
> for you to figure it out.

Yes, this was what I was getting at. I want to be able to do 'boot net'
in the openboot prom. I suppose I didn't describe correctly.

Thanks for the pointer, my searching hadn't found that, perhaps because
it's so old.

Unfortunately, the 2 links for the loader (one for nfs and one for tftp)
are dead. I wonder whether anyone can suggest how I go about creating
this myself?

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[KOT MATPOCKuH]

2009/10/16 Duncan Hutty <dhutty@...>:

> Unfortunately, the 2 links for the loader (one for nfs and one for tftp) are
> dead. I wonder whether anyone can suggest how I go about creating this
> myself?
Default /boot/loader support booting over tftp/nfs, but on my sfv215
system I got a panic while kernel loads.
If you also occupies this problem, I can resend you patch for loader
by Marius Strobl or ready-to-use binary loader.

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MATPOCKuH
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