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- The latest supported OpenBSD/sparc release is - OpenBSD 3.2. - Here are the - - OpenBSD/sparc 3.2 installation instructions - . -
- -- Snapshots are made available from time to time, in - this location - as well as in a few - mirrors. - Here are the - - OpenBSD/sparc snapshot installation instructions - as well. -
- -- There are several installation media provided, so that - OpenBSD/sparc can be installed or upgraded via CD, floppy boot images on - sun4c and sun4m, miniroot images for machines without floppies - (and sun4 machines), as well as network and diskless installs. -
- Booting off the CD provides a small ffs filesystem with a kernel containing
- a GENERIC kernel with drivers for all devices found on Sparc machines.
- For the latest list of drivers available on this image, take a look at the
- GENERIC
- kernel configuration file.
- The CD can be booted off the OpenPROM prompt with
-
- boot cdrom 3.2/sparc/bsd.rd --
- Booting off the floppy provides a small ffs filesystem with a kernel
- containing drivers for the most popular devices found on Sparc machines.
- For the latest list of drivers available on this image, take a look at the
- RAMDISK
- kernel configuration file.
- The floppy can be booted off the OpenPROM prompt with
-
- boot floppy --
- The miniroot provides the same installation environment as the bootable CD, - and is intended for easy bootstrap if there is already an operating system - installed on the machine. - After dumping the miniroot to the primary swap partition with dd, the - miniroot can be booted off the OpenPROM prompt with a command such as -
- boot disk:b -- (the disk designation may be different, depending on the chosen swap - partition). -
- Using a diskless setup, it is also possible to boot the OpenBSD/sparc - boot loader, boot.net, from the network via tftp, and access - the bsd.rd standalone miniroot over NFS. - Refer to the - diskless(8) - manual page for details on how to setup a network boot environment. -