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Rewrite the section on downloading files to get all of the URLs in one

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place, near the front of the document.

Also try to provide some introduction on the difference between CDROM
and network installs.
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@ -23,12 +23,71 @@ This file contains sparc64-specific installation instructions.
<sect2>
<title>Preparation</title>
<para>Currently, there are two ways to install &os;/&arch; on a
new machine. By far the easier of the two is to install from
CDROM; this method allows you to install &os; without any
dependencies on any other computers.</para>
<para>If installing from CDROM is impossible or undesirable, the
alternative is to install over the network. This requires
another machine, suitably configured, to serve the boot loader,
kernel, and root file system to the new machine, via a
combination of RARP, TFTP, and either BOOTP or DHCP. This
netboot server can be another &os; machine, but is not required
to be.</para>
<para>You will need to decide which of these methods you want to
use for installation, as this will determine the set of files
you need to download (if any), as well as the steps required to
do the installation.</para>
<sect3>
<title>Downloading Required Files</title>
<para>If you are not installing from a CDROM, you will need to
download some files via FTP (the URLs are given below). The
links in this document point to the main &os; FTP server.
Please use a mirror site instead if possible.</para>
<para>This section describes the files you will need for a
&os;/&arch; installation. The links in this document point to
the main &os; FTP server. Please use a mirror site instead if
possible.
<sect4>
<title>Required Files for CDROM Installation</title>
<para>If you want to do a CDROM installation, an ISO
image with a snapshot of &os;/&arch; can be found at
<ulink url="&release.url;"></ulink>. This file can be used to
create a bootable CDROM which contains everything necessary to
boot and load at least a minimal &os; installation.</para>
<!-- XXX ISO location?-->
</sect4>
<sect4>
<title>Required Files for Network Installation</title>
<para>For a network installation, you will need several files.
First, you will need to download a &os;/&arch; loader for
&man.tftpd.8; to serve to your &arch; client. There are
currently three ways for a loader to load a kernel; TFTP, NFS,
or a local disk. There is a separate loader for each of these
methods; you should download one of the following files:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para><ulink url="&release.url;loader-tftp.gz"></ulink></para></listitem>
<listitem><para><ulink url="&release.url;loader-nfs.gz"></ulink></para></listitem>
<listitem><para><ulink url="&release.url;loader-ufs.gz"></ulink></para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
<para>A network installation also requires a kernel to be served
to the netboot client. A suitable kernel can be found at
<ulink url="&release.url;"></ulink>.</para>
<!-- XXX kernel filename?-->
<para>Finally, you will need a &man.tar.1; archive which
contains the binaries and configuration files from the base
system. This file is available from <ulink
url="&release.url;distrib.tar.gz"></ulink>.</para>
</sect4>
</sect3>
<sect3 id="getting-to-prom-prompt">
<title>Getting to the PROM Prompt</title>
@ -122,19 +181,6 @@ Ethernet address 0:3:ba:b:92:d4, Host ID: 830b92d4.</screen>
<programlisting>tftp dgram udp wait nobody /usr/libexec/tftpd tftpd /tftpboot</programlisting>
<para>You will then need to download a &os;/&arch; loader for
&man.tftpd.8; to serve to your &arch;
client. There are currently two loaders to choose from:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para><ulink url="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/development/sparc64/loader-tftp.gz"></ulink> -
(<emphasis>for loading the kernel over
TFTP</emphasis>).</para></listitem>
<listitem><para><ulink url="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/development/sparc64/loader-nfs.gz"></ulink> -
(<emphasis>for loading the kernel via NFS</emphasis>).</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
<para>Copy the unpacked loader to your
<filename>/tftpboot</filename> directory, and name it with the &os;/&arch; host's IP address in
upper-case hexadecimal notation without dots (or use appropriately-named symbolic links). For