Sparcstaionlx:_netbsd_a_go!

title: SparcStaionLX: NetBSD a go! date: 2005-10-10 10:21:33

Picked up a 25-to-9 pin adapter yesterday, and in combination with a 9-pin null modem cable I finally managed to get at the Sun firmware prompt, and thus to install NetBSD over the network. Very nice, very simple install; the only problem I had was this one: the option root-path "/home/aardvark/netbsd-sparc/nfsroot" was too long, and the DHCP server just did not hand out that option -- no complaints or anything. Not good. Just starting up SSH for the first time right now, and holy crap it's taking a while to generate the host keys. --Only 24MB of RAM...huh, thought for some reason these things came with 96MB. Should probably just give up and generate host keys for the thing.