You're welcome. I got even more curious and am starting to play with FreeBSD too. Actually got the old jumpstart-style rarp/bootp/tftp/nfs install thing working since I ran out of CDs in the wee hours of the morning :\ It actually worked great.
I've quite a few SPARC machines ranging from SPARC 2 to SPARC 10 to Ultra 1& 2& 5 to T1000&2000 around if I can help out with further Tribblix testing or maybe a little dev. --jake On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 4:01 PM, Peter Tribble <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Feb 1, 2015 at 11:32 PM, Jacob Ritorto <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > tribblix dies a few seconds after starting to boot with > > Loading: /platform/SUNW,Ultra-5_10/boot_archive > > Loading: /platform/sun4u/boot_archive > > > > Can't open boot_archive > > Fast Data Access MMU Miss > > > > Hey, thanks for testing (and the bug report...)! > > You did read the bit about "experimental", "works for me", and "only > tested on a T5140"? There's a reason those caveats apply, it hasn't > seen much testing outside my single lab box. It was only at the end of > last week that I burnt an actual iso and did a physical boot (as opposed > to running an LDOM off the iso image file). > > So this is both encouraging and discouraging. The ISO is valid (that's the > good bit) but doesn't have a boot archive it can find. OK, I can add a > symlink to get around that particular error in the build. > > You're still going to have the problem that the boot archive is too large. > I'm currently down to a 172M archive rather than 200M, but that's > really going to have to get down to ~100M before booting on a 256M > machine is viable. I can just about see how to get down to 120M, > but it's going to get more interesting beyond that. > > > > Bummer. > > > > Thanks very much, nonetheless, for keeping SPARC in mind, Peter! > > > > > > > > On Sun, Feb 1, 2015 at 3:57 PM, Jacob Ritorto <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > > Hmm, yeah, Tribblix sounds like a great option for my purposes. Is > there > > > X support? That'd be nice so I can free up the other serial port. > > (Trying > > > to simultaneously run a serial console to the pdp11 as well as an > > emulated > > > tu58 drive via the other serial port.) I think I'll give it a whirl. > > > OpenBSD can boot from floppy and install via Internet, so that's great, > > but > > > I can't seem to find any floppies that'll still format. This is > heck-of > > > retro :) > > > > > > thx > > > jake > > > > > > > > > On Sun, Feb 1, 2015 at 2:22 PM, Peter Tribble <[email protected] > > > > > wrote: > > > > > >> > Is it feasible to install Hipster or OI on such a meagerly > appointed > > >> > machine? I don't even have a dvd player; just cd. > > >> > > > >> > SunOS beep 5.11 snv_65 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-5_10 > > >> > Memory size: 256 Megabytes > > >> > > > >> > > >> That's a sparc box. You aren't going to be able to run OI > > >> (any version, including hipster) or most of the illumos distros. > > >> > > >> You've really got 2 options. OpenSXCE or Tribblix. > > >> > > >> http://www.opensxce.org/ > > >> http://www.tribblix.org/download.html > > >> > > >> Now, the Tribblix iso should fit on a CD. (Although to be > > >> honest that's largely accidental as I haven't built most > > >> of the packages for sparc yet.) As should the OpenSXCE > > >> text iso. > > >> > > >> The really hard part is going to be booting the CD in that > > >> small amount of memory. The root archive on the Tribblix > > >> iso is currently 200M, and that gets loaded into memory - > > >> you really don't have any space left to breathe. (I don't > > >> know offhand how big the OpenSXCE boot archive is, > > >> but it's likely to be pretty similar.) > > >> > > >> This isn't a truly fundamental problem - the root archive > > >> ends up being pretty large because it has support for > > >> everything in it by default, and it should be possible to > > >> produce a custom iso with a much smaller root archive. > > >> One of the things I'm interested in is minimal-footprint > > >> configurations, so doing that (and any other work to > > >> improve efficiency and reduce the footprint) is on my > > >> agenda, but it's going to take time. (And it's difficult > > >> for me to test, as I don't personally have any sparc > > >> hardware left that's that old or small. On x86 I think > > >> I managed to boot a custom iso in 400M and run in 256M, > > >> but there I can fiddle the settings in a VirtualBox VM.) > > >> > > >> Another way would be to use the existing OS to install > > >> a newer distro in an alternate boot environment. > > >> > > >> In any event, you're likely to be in for a modest amount > > >> of work and you're off into the weeds; the population of > > >> illumos users working on sparc is pretty small. > > >> > > >> -- > > >> -Peter Tribble > > >> http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/ > > >> _______________________________________________ > > >> openindiana-discuss mailing list > > >> [email protected] > > >> http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss > > >> > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > openindiana-discuss mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss > > > > > > -- > -Peter Tribble > http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/ > _______________________________________________ > openindiana-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss > _______________________________________________ openindiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
