new install sunfire v100

2008-10-15 Thread Davenport, Steve M 
I'm installing 7.0-RELEASE on a Sun Sunfire v100 server. I was able to
boot the cd, and install through cd one. There is no framebuffer on the
v100 (vt100 serial console interface only) so the install would not
proceed past the first disk. I want to use this system as a nameserver
and was able to download Bind 9.3.5-P2, compile, and run. My questions
are:
 
1) Can I manually complete the install process for items on CDs 23?
 
2) In the /var/log/messages I see:
 
Oct  9 19:50:53 steve3 kernel: acd0: CDRW CD-224E/P.9A at ata3-slave
PIO4
Oct  9 19:50:53 steve3 kernel: acd0: FAILURE - READ_BIG MEDIUM ERROR
asc=0x11 as
cq=0x00
Oct  9 19:50:53 steve3 kernel: GEOM_LABEL: Label for provider acd0 is
iso9660/Fr
eeBSD_Install.
Oct  9 19:50:53 steve3 kernel: acd0: FAILURE - READ_BIG MEDIUM ERROR
asc=0x11 as
cq=0x00
 
What is causing these cd errors?
 
Thanks for your assistance!
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Re: new install sunfire v100

2008-10-15 Thread Henrik Hudson 
On Wednesday 15 October 2008, Davenport, Steve M [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
sent a missive stating: 
 I'm installing 7.0-RELEASE on a Sun Sunfire v100 server. I was able to
 boot the cd, and install through cd one. There is no framebuffer on the
 v100 (vt100 serial console interface only) so the install would not
 proceed past the first disk. I want to use this system as a nameserver
 and was able to download Bind 9.3.5-P2, compile, and run. My questions
 are:

 1) Can I manually complete the install process for items on CDs 23?

You only need CD1 for a basic server. Bind is part of the base system, so you 
don't need to download it. You can remove it (see src.conf and build world) 
and use the ports system to install Bind from ports.

Henrik
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Re: new install sunfire v100

2008-10-15 Thread mdh 
--- On Wed, 10/15/08, Davenport, Steve M [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 From: Davenport, Steve M [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Subject: new install sunfire v100
 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
 Date: Wednesday, October 15, 2008, 1:53 PM
 I'm installing 7.0-RELEASE on a Sun Sunfire v100 server.
 I was able to
 boot the cd, and install through cd one. There is no
 framebuffer on the
 v100 (vt100 serial console interface only) so the install
 would not
 proceed past the first disk. I want to use this system as a
 nameserver
 and was able to download Bind 9.3.5-P2, compile, and run.
 My questions
 are:
  
 1) Can I manually complete the install process for items on
 CDs 23?
  
 2) In the /var/log/messages I see:
  
 Oct  9 19:50:53 steve3 kernel: acd0: CDRW
 CD-224E/P.9A at ata3-slave
 PIO4
 Oct  9 19:50:53 steve3 kernel: acd0: FAILURE - READ_BIG
 MEDIUM ERROR
 asc=0x11 as
 cq=0x00
 Oct  9 19:50:53 steve3 kernel: GEOM_LABEL: Label for
 provider acd0 is
 iso9660/Fr
 eeBSD_Install.
 Oct  9 19:50:53 steve3 kernel: acd0: FAILURE - READ_BIG
 MEDIUM ERROR
 asc=0x11 as
 cq=0x00
  
 What is causing these cd errors?
  
 Thanks for your assistance!

Hi Steve,
With regards to the install, the second and third CDs only include packages.  
You can just as easily run `sysinstall` from the command line while logged in 
as root and install additional packages from an HTTP or FTP server over the 
net, or use the CDs if they work alright.  Above and beyond that, you can also 
just (I prefer this, myself) build the software you want from ports and skip 
binary packages entirely for the most part.  
If your CD drive is functioning as you expect, those syslog errors can probably 
be safely ignored.  If the issue is in fact causing problems with reading CDs, 
you can perform your install of the additional packages via the net, and 
perhaps we can deal with the CD issue - unfortunately, I've never used a 
non-SCSI SPARC64 box with FreeBSD, so I don't know if I'll personally be able 
to help you too much there, but surely some folks here or on the sparc64 list 
would.  
As an aside, you may want to consider signing up for the FreeBSD sparc64 
mailing list.  
- mdh



  
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