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

[Brett D. Estrade]

On Thu, 23 Jun 2005 13:36:03 -0600, "Scott Long" <scottl at samsco.org>
said:
> Brett D. Estrade wrote:
> > On Thu, 23 Jun 2005 14:37:50 -0400, "John Baldwin" <jhb at FreeBSD.org>
> > said:
> > 
> >>On Thursday 23 June 2005 02:22 pm, David O'Brien wrote:
> >>
> >>>[ please don't top post - it looses context ]
> >>>
> >>>On Thu, Jun 23, 2005 at 01:01:18PM -0500, Brett D. Estrade wrote:
> >>>
> >>>>Do the installation boot floppy images for sparc64 exist as the
> >>>>documentation claims, or are they a myth?
> >>>
> >>>They do not exist.  These document files are shared with other FreeBSD
> >>>architectures that do have boot floppies (i386 and alpha).
> >>
> >>You can bug bmah@ about making the references to floppies only show up in
> >>the 
> >>i386 and alpha release notes.
> >>
> > 
> > 
> > Would he also be able to note that you need to install through a serial
> > console?  That and the floppies thing were the only 2 "gotchas" that
> > plagued me after I thought I had gone through the effort of informing
> > myself about FreeBSD on Sparc64....of course this still leaves Robert in
> > a lurch with his U10 dilemma :\
> > 
> > Brett
> 
> Installing from a normal video console should work a lot better with
> 6.0.  I think that the June snapshot has enough pieces to demonstrate
> this, if you're willing to check it out.
> 
> Scott

I have things pretty well set up, but I'll burn an .iso, and will stop
right before the point of no return :)...thanks,

Brett