David Fitch was once rumoured to have said: > On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 07:10:15AM +1100, Craige McWhirter wrote: > > The closest SPARC I have to > > yours is a SPARC Station 20 and it boots off the CD (well, it needs to - > > no floppy!).
There should be no major differences between a SS5 and SS20 - they're both recent Sun4m systems. > indeed, it's not particularly tricky or anything, like I said > mine boots off the solaris cd fine. > > > A small question, are you using "boot cdrom" from the boot prompt? > > first off "boot cdrom - install" then "boot cdrom" yes. Right, its at this point you use floppies if you have the optional floppy drive fitted, else you play with boot net. I might actually document how to fight with boot net sometime since I don't know if tridge's notes on how to do it are still floating about. Installing linux over the network is actually signficantly less painful than trying to net install BSD onto sparc without a BSD workstation handy - Linux doesn't require bootparamd servers for its tftp bootloader. Anyhows, to be a complete heretic, I will suggest that you also look at NetBSD and/or OpenBSD since they have very SOLID sparc32 support compared to the state of the linux sparc32 port 12-24 months ago. [I haven't used the sparc32 port in a while - and Linux on ultrasparc is fairly solid. Would sombody with recent experience with sparc32 like to comment. Jeff?] anyhows, I might write up instructions for network installing sparcs to go alongside my network install for irix workstation notes ;) C. -- --==============================================-- Crossfire | This email was brought to you [EMAIL PROTECTED] | on 100% Recycled Electrons --==============================================-- -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
