List would be handy.... ----- Forwarded message from Colin Humphreys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -----
From: Colin Humphreys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [SLUG] netra x1 Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2002 10:49:48 +1100 Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i To: "Rowling, Jill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 10:06:37AM +1100, Rowling, Jill wrote: > My understanding was that these things were designed to be installed via > Jumpstart, not from CDROM. If you had an external CDROM you could probably > convince the thing to boot from it (probably from the NVRAM command prompt) > but I suspect the hardware would be sufficiently different to make a (say) > Red Hat sparc linux distro not work, on account of the devices being > somewhat different. An X1 only has internal IDE, and no SCSI, but as Jill says you may be able to use a standard CDROM, and get it to boot, if you can figure out the full device name, as the "cdrom" devalias will probably be wrong. The best way would be to configure a bootp/dhcp and tftp server and net boot the box. I'd suggest debian as it has pretty good install doco.... http://www.au.debian.org/releases/stable/sparc/install Doesn't seem to be anything saying it won't work on the full range of sun4u boxes. I might even try this today if I get time... > > I notice these things are no longer in the Sun catalogue and they seem to > have replaced the whole low end server range with the Cobalt range of > Intel-based Linux boxes. Actually they were replaces by the v100, which actually gets a CDROM drive..... also wishing you luck, -Colin ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Disclaimer: Any resemblance between the above views and those of my employer, my terminal, or the view out my window are purely coincidental. Any resemblance between the above and my own views is non-deterministic. The question of the existence of views in the absence of anyone to hold them is left as an exercise for the reader. The question of the existence of the reader is left as an exercise for the second god coefficient. (A discussion of non-orthogonal, non-integral polytheism is beyond the scope of this article.) -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
