Where are the Sparc64 Installation Boot Floppies? (was - Re: Installation on SUN U10 Continued)

[Brett D. Estrade]

Do the installation boot floppy images for sparc64 exist as the
documentation claims, or are they a myth?

On the ftp site (ftp1.freebsd.org),
"/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/5.4-RELEASE/floppies" exists, 
BUT there is no "/pub/FreeBSD/releases/sparc64/5.4-RELEASE/floppies"

I ran into this roadblock as well last week.  Could someone please clear
this up?

Thanks!
Brett

On Thu, 23 Jun 2005 16:03:30 +0000, "Robert Slade"
<bsd at bathnetworks.com> said:
> Brett,
> 
> I would like to try the floppy install, but there are no floppy images
> in the distribution on the ftp sites, nor is their a floppy directory on
> the CD's, even though the and release notes refers to it. 
> 
> Rob
> On Thu, 2005-06-23 at 12:07, Brett D. Estrade wrote:
> > boot floppies to install from ftp?
> > 
> > On Thu, 23 Jun 2005 11:28:04 +0000, "Robert Slade"
> > <bsd at bathnetworks.com> said:
> > > Hiya,
> > > 
> > > I am still having problems with installing 5.3 on a SUN U10. I cannot
> > > install from the CDs, bit 5.4 and 5.3. I get a short read - file does
> > > not appear to be executable error. I have tied it with CD's I have burnt
> > > and ones from a supplier. Following a suggestion, I have also burn the
> > > iso images onto high grade CDs, this still did not work - same error.
> > > The U10 does have Solaris 9 installed and this can read the CD and all
> > > appears to be correct.
> > > 
> > > I have tried charging the CDROM on the U10, but it refuses to recognise
> > > the replacement CDROM as being there. Thishappens with 2 different
> > > CDROMs not sure why this is. I've tried reset-all but this does not make
> > > any difference. Any suggestions?
> > > 
> > > I can get the boot only iso to boot. However, whilst this allows me into
> > > the FreeBSD OS on the CD and start sysinstall, I cannot delete the
> > > Solaris slices, so I cannot setup the disk to install FreeBSD via FTP.
> > > Is there any way round this? 
> > > 
> > > Rob
> > > 
> > >   
> > > 
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