More detailed UltraPenguin CD-ROM making instructions

More detailed UltraPenguin CD-ROM making instructions

[Jakub Jelinek]

Hi!

As I've received a couple of requests for more detailed instructions how to
make the bootable CD, here they are:

Grab the UltraPenguin 1.1 distribution, e.g. from
ftp://ultra.penguin.cz/pub/ultrapenguin-1.1/
and put it on an sparclinux or ultralinux box (glibc required).

lets assume it is in directory /usr/ultrapenguin-1.1
Now do

cd /usr/ultrapenguin-1.1/
# This step can be omited, if you don't want to put source RPMS on the CD,
# but IMHO it is a waste of space to make a 300M CD only if you can make
# a 600M.
mv -f SRPMS sparc/
cd sparc
# Then make sure your mirror has copied the dev/ directory well:
rm -f dev/*
mknod dev/console c 5 1; chmod 600 dev/console
mknod dev/initctl p; chmod 600 dev/initctl
mknod dev/null c 1 3; chmod 644 dev/null
mknod dev/openprom c 10 139; chmod 644 dev/openprom
mknod dev/ram b 1 1; chmod 640 dev/ram
for i in 1 2 3 4 5; do mknod dev/tty$i c 4 $i; chmod 600 dev/tty$i; done
mknod dev/zero c 1 5; chmod 644 dev/zero
# then 
chown -R 0.0 /usr/ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc
DEVICE=/dev/loop0
FILE=/usr/up-1.1.iso
UPCD=/usr/ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc
MNT=/mnt/cdrom
mkisofs -A "UltraPenguin 1.1" -o $FILE -P "The UltraLinux team" -p "Jakub Jelinek <jj@ultra.linux.cz>" -R -V "UltraPenguin" $UPCD/
insmod loop
losetup $DEVICE $FILE
mount -r -t iso9660 $DEVICE $MNT
cd $MNT/misc/src/trees/
./mkcdboot $MNT $DEVICE
cd /
umount $MNT
losetup -d $DEVICE

then bring the /usr/up-1.1.iso file to your favourite CD burner and burn it.


Cheers,
    Jakub
___________________________________________________________________
Jakub Jelinek | jj@sunsite.mff.cuni.cz | http://sunsite.mff.cuni.cz
Administrator of SunSITE Czech Republic, MFF, Charles University
___________________________________________________________________
Ultralinux - first 64bit OS to take full power of the UltraSparc
Linux version 2.1.127 on a sparc64 machine (498.80 BogoMips).
___________________________________________________________________

Re: More detailed UltraPenguin CD-ROM making instructions

[Jakub Jelinek]

> 
> Just trying it out.... - the problem I have here is :
> (I suspect my mirror program might have caused the problem - but you
> might want to check there ? )....
> 
> 
> bash-2.01# less mkcdboot
> bash-2.01# sh ./mkcdboot /mnt/cdrom /dev/loop0
> ./mkcdboot: silo-0.8.2/sbin/silo: Permission denied
> bash-2.01# ls -al silo-0.8.2/sbin/
> total 31
> drwxr-xr-x   2 root     root         2048 Nov  9 15:55 .
> drwxr-xr-x  12 root     root         2048 Nov  4 06:31 ..
> -r--r--r--   1 root     root        25884 Nov  4 15:19 silo
> bash-2.01# 
> 
> 
> Will try a chmod and see what happens !.

Ok, seems like your mirror broke all the permissions.
find ultrapenguin-1.1/ -type f -a -perm +0111

gives appended names, so feed it to 
chmod +x `cat executables`

executables:
-------------------------------
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/RedHat/base/install3.tr
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/doc/HOWTO/mini/DHCP
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/lib/ld-2.0.7.so
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/lib/libc-2.0.7.so
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/lib/libcom_err.so.2.0
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/lib/libe2p.so.2.3
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/lib/libext2fs.so.2.3
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/lib/libnsl-2.0.7.so
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/lib/libnss_files-2.0.7.so
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/lib/libuuid.so.1.1
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/misc/src/install/dmphdlist
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/misc/src/install/genhdlist
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/misc/src/install/install
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/misc/src/install/install2
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/misc/src/install/modutils/config.guess
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/misc/src/install/modutils/config.status
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/misc/src/install/modutils/config.sub
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/misc/src/install/modutils/configure
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/misc/src/install/modutils/depmod/depmod
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/misc/src/install/modutils/depmod/modprobe
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/misc/src/install/modutils/genksyms/genksyms
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/misc/src/install/modutils/genksyms/makecrc32
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/misc/src/install/modutils/insmod/insmod
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/misc/src/install/modutils/insmod/ksyms
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/misc/src/install/modutils/insmod/lsmod
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/misc/src/install/modutils/insmod/modinfo
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/misc/src/install/modutils/install-sh
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/misc/src/install/modutils/kerneld/GOODIES/do_sound
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/misc/src/install/modutils/kerneld/kerneld
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/misc/src/install/modutils/kerneld/request-route.sh
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/misc/src/install/pci-probing/makepciids
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/misc/src/install/pci-probing/pcidevinfo
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/misc/src/install/pci-probing/pcidevinfomerge
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/misc/src/install/pci-probing/test-pciprobe
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/misc/src/install/sbus-probing/test-sbusprobe
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/misc/src/install/simplemot
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/misc/src/install/snarffont
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/misc/src/installinit/init
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/misc/src/trees/genfonts
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/misc/src/trees/genfonts.jj
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/misc/src/trees/genromfs-0.3/genromfs
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/misc/src/trees/mkboot1
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/misc/src/trees/mkboot1.jj
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/misc/src/trees/mkcdboot
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/misc/src/trees/mkcdboot.jj
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/misc/src/trees/mkramdisk
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/misc/src/trees/mkramdisk.jj
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/misc/src/trees/mkrescue
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/misc/src/trees/mkrescue.jj
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/misc/src/trees/mkskel.jj
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/misc/src/trees/mktftp
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/misc/src/trees/mktftp.jj
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/misc/src/trees/mktftprescue
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/misc/src/trees/pullfonts.awk
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/misc/src/trees/ramdisk/lib/ld-2.0.7.so
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/misc/src/trees/ramdisk/lib/libc-2.0.7.so
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/misc/src/trees/ramdisk/lib/libcom_err.so.2.0
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/misc/src/trees/ramdisk/lib/libe2p.so.2.3
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/misc/src/trees/ramdisk/lib/libext2fs.so.2.3
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/misc/src/trees/ramdisk/lib/libnsl-2.0.7.so
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/misc/src/trees/ramdisk/lib/libnss_files-2.0.7.so
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/misc/src/trees/ramdisk/lib/libuuid.so.1.1
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/misc/src/trees/ramdisk/sbin/init
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/misc/src/trees/ramdisk/sbin/insmod64
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/misc/src/trees/ramdisk/sbin/install
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/misc/src/trees/ramdisk/sbin/install2
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/misc/src/trees/ramdisk/usr/bin/ash
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/misc/src/trees/ramdisk/usr/bin/badblocks
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/misc/src/trees/ramdisk/usr/bin/cp
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/misc/src/trees/ramdisk/usr/bin/df
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/misc/src/trees/ramdisk/usr/bin/fdisk
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/misc/src/trees/ramdisk/usr/bin/gzip
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/misc/src/trees/ramdisk/usr/bin/mke2fs
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/misc/src/trees/ramdisk/usr/bin/runinstall2
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/misc/src/trees/rescue/bin/ash
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/misc/src/trees/rescue/bin/badblocks
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/misc/src/trees/rescue/bin/bzip2
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/misc/src/trees/rescue/bin/cat
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/misc/src/trees/rescue/bin/chmod
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/misc/src/trees/rescue/bin/chroot
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/misc/src/trees/rescue/bin/cp
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/misc/src/trees/rescue/bin/cpio
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/misc/src/trees/rescue/bin/dd
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/misc/src/trees/rescue/bin/df
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/misc/src/trees/rescue/bin/e2fsck
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/misc/src/trees/rescue/bin/fdisk
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/misc/src/trees/rescue/bin/grep
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/misc/src/trees/rescue/bin/gzip
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/misc/src/trees/rescue/bin/head
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/misc/src/trees/rescue/bin/ifconfig
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/misc/src/trees/rescue/bin/init
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/misc/src/trees/rescue/bin/ln
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/misc/src/trees/rescue/bin/ls
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/misc/src/trees/rescue/bin/lsmod
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/misc/src/trees/rescue/bin/mkdir
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/misc/src/trees/rescue/bin/mke2fs
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/misc/src/trees/rescue/bin/mknod
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/misc/src/trees/rescue/bin/mount
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/misc/src/trees/rescue/bin/mt
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/misc/src/trees/rescue/bin/mv
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/misc/src/trees/rescue/bin/open
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/misc/src/trees/rescue/bin/pico
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/misc/src/trees/rescue/bin/ping
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/misc/src/trees/rescue/bin/prtconf
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/misc/src/trees/rescue/bin/ps
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/misc/src/trees/rescue/bin/restore
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/misc/src/trees/rescue/bin/rm
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/misc/src/trees/rescue/bin/route
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/misc/src/trees/rescue/bin/rpm
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/misc/src/trees/rescue/bin/sed
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/misc/src/trees/rescue/bin/swapon
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/misc/src/trees/rescue/bin/sync
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/misc/src/trees/rescue/bin/tac
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/misc/src/trees/rescue/bin/tail
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/misc/src/trees/rescue/bin/tar
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/misc/src/trees/rescue/bin/traceroute
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/misc/src/trees/rescue/bin/umount
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/misc/src/trees/rescue/bin/vim
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/misc/src/trees/rescue/lib/ld-2.0.7.so
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/misc/src/trees/rescue/lib/libc-2.0.7.so
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/misc/src/trees/rescue/lib/libcom_err.so.2.0
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/misc/src/trees/rescue/lib/libdb-2.0.7.so
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/misc/src/trees/rescue/lib/libdl-2.0.7.so
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/misc/src/trees/rescue/lib/libe2p.so.2.3
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/misc/src/trees/rescue/lib/libext2fs.so.2.3
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/misc/src/trees/rescue/lib/libnsl-2.0.7.so
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/misc/src/trees/rescue/lib/libnss_dns-2.0.7.so
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/misc/src/trees/rescue/lib/libnss_files-2.0.7.so
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/misc/src/trees/rescue/lib/libproc.so.1.2
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/misc/src/trees/rescue/lib/libproc.so.1.2.6
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/misc/src/trees/rescue/lib/libtermcap.so.2.0.8
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/misc/src/trees/rescue/lib/libuuid.so.1.1
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/misc/src/trees/silo-0.8.2/misc/silocheck
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/misc/src/trees/silo-0.8.2/sbin/silo
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/misc/src/trees/tftprescue/bin/ash
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/misc/src/trees/tftprescue/bin/badblocks
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/misc/src/trees/tftprescue/bin/basename
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/misc/src/trees/tftprescue/bin/bzip2
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/misc/src/trees/tftprescue/bin/cat
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/misc/src/trees/tftprescue/bin/chmod
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/misc/src/trees/tftprescue/bin/chroot
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/misc/src/trees/tftprescue/bin/cp
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/misc/src/trees/tftprescue/bin/cpio
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/misc/src/trees/tftprescue/bin/dd
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/misc/src/trees/tftprescue/bin/df
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/misc/src/trees/tftprescue/bin/doexec
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/misc/src/trees/tftprescue/bin/e2fsck
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/misc/src/trees/tftprescue/bin/fdisk
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/misc/src/trees/tftprescue/bin/grep
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/misc/src/trees/tftprescue/bin/gzip
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/misc/src/trees/tftprescue/bin/head
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/misc/src/trees/tftprescue/bin/ifconfig
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/misc/src/trees/tftprescue/bin/init
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/misc/src/trees/tftprescue/bin/insmod
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/misc/src/trees/tftprescue/bin/insmod32
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/misc/src/trees/tftprescue/bin/insmod64
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/misc/src/trees/tftprescue/bin/ln
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/misc/src/trees/tftprescue/bin/ls
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/misc/src/trees/tftprescue/bin/lsmod
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/misc/src/trees/tftprescue/bin/mkdir
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/misc/src/trees/tftprescue/bin/mke2fs
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/misc/src/trees/tftprescue/bin/mknod
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/misc/src/trees/tftprescue/bin/mount
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/misc/src/trees/tftprescue/bin/mt
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/misc/src/trees/tftprescue/bin/mv
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/misc/src/trees/tftprescue/bin/open
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/misc/src/trees/tftprescue/bin/pciprobe
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/misc/src/trees/tftprescue/bin/pico
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/misc/src/trees/tftprescue/bin/ping
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/misc/src/trees/tftprescue/bin/prtconf
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/misc/src/trees/tftprescue/bin/ps
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/misc/src/trees/tftprescue/bin/restore
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/misc/src/trees/tftprescue/bin/rm
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/misc/src/trees/tftprescue/bin/rmmod
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/misc/src/trees/tftprescue/bin/route
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/misc/src/trees/tftprescue/bin/rpm
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/misc/src/trees/tftprescue/bin/sbusprobe
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/misc/src/trees/tftprescue/bin/sed
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/misc/src/trees/tftprescue/bin/swapon
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/misc/src/trees/tftprescue/bin/sync
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/misc/src/trees/tftprescue/bin/tac
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/misc/src/trees/tftprescue/bin/tail
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/misc/src/trees/tftprescue/bin/tar
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/misc/src/trees/tftprescue/bin/traceroute
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/misc/src/trees/tftprescue/bin/umount
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/misc/src/trees/tftprescue/bin/uname
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/misc/src/trees/tftprescue/bin/vim
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/misc/src/trees/tftprescue/lib/ld-2.0.7.so
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/misc/src/trees/tftprescue/lib/libc-2.0.7.so
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/misc/src/trees/tftprescue/lib/libcom_err.so.2.0
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/misc/src/trees/tftprescue/lib/libcrypt-2.0.7.so
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/misc/src/trees/tftprescue/lib/libdb-2.0.7.so
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/misc/src/trees/tftprescue/lib/libdl-2.0.7.so
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/misc/src/trees/tftprescue/lib/libe2p.so.2.3
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/misc/src/trees/tftprescue/lib/libext2fs.so.2.3
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/misc/src/trees/tftprescue/lib/libnsl-2.0.7.so
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/misc/src/trees/tftprescue/lib/libnss_dns-2.0.7.so
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/misc/src/trees/tftprescue/lib/libnss_files-2.0.7.so
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/misc/src/trees/tftprescue/lib/libproc.so.1.2
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/misc/src/trees/tftprescue/lib/libproc.so.1.2.6
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/misc/src/trees/tftprescue/lib/libtermcap.so.2.0.8
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/misc/src/trees/tftprescue/lib/libuuid.so.1.1
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/misc/src/trees/tilo-0.2/maketilo
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/misc/src/trees/tilo-0.2/src/bin2h
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/misc/src/trees/tilo-0.2/src/boot
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/misc/src/trees/tilo-0.2/src/boot2
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/misc/src/trees/tilo-0.2/tilo
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/misc/src/trees/tilo-0.2/tilo.jj
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/misc/src/trees/updcdboot
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/misc/src/trees/updmodules
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/misc/src/trees/updramdisk
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/misc/src/trees/updramdisk.jj
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/misc/src/trees/updrescue
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/misc/src/trees/updtftprescue
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/sbin/init
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/sbin/insmod64
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/sbin/install
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/sbin/install2
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/usr/bin/ash
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/usr/bin/badblocks
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/usr/bin/cp
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/usr/bin/df
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/usr/bin/fdisk
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/usr/bin/gzip
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/usr/bin/mke2fs
ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/usr/bin/runinstall2

Cheers,
    Jakub
___________________________________________________________________
Jakub Jelinek | jj@sunsite.mff.cuni.cz | http://sunsite.mff.cuni.cz
Administrator of SunSITE Czech Republic, MFF, Charles University
___________________________________________________________________
Ultralinux - first 64bit OS to take full power of the UltraSparc
Linux version 2.1.127 on a sparc64 machine (498.80 BogoMips).
___________________________________________________________________

Re: More detailed UltraPenguin CD-ROM making instructions

[Sylvain Pion]

On Wed, Nov 11, 1998 at 11:28:11PM +0100, Jakub Jelinek wrote:
> As I've received a couple of requests for more detailed instructions how to
> make the bootable CD, here they are:
> 
> Grab the UltraPenguin 1.1 distribution, e.g. from
> ftp://ultra.penguin.cz/pub/ultrapenguin-1.1/
> and put it on an sparclinux or ultralinux box (glibc required).

So to install UltraLinux, you need UltraLinux...
Looks like a chicken and egg problem for me.
Is there a way to make the CD image on Solaris or on a PC-Linux ?
(or get it via ftp directly)

-- 
Sylvain, who's Ultra-10 is desperatly waiting for a real OS :)

Re: More detailed UltraPenguin CD-ROM making instructions

[Derrick J Brashear]

On Thu, 12 Nov 1998, Sylvain Pion wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 11, 1998 at 11:28:11PM +0100, Jakub Jelinek wrote:
> > As I've received a couple of requests for more detailed instructions how to
> > make the bootable CD, here they are:
> > 
> > Grab the UltraPenguin 1.1 distribution, e.g. from
> > ftp://ultra.penguin.cz/pub/ultrapenguin-1.1/
> > and put it on an sparclinux or ultralinux box (glibc required).
> 
> So to install UltraLinux, you need UltraLinux...

Uh, to make a bootable CD you need ultralinux or sparclinux. To install
ultralinux you only need a machine you can run ftpd or nfs on to export
the rpms, and a machine you can tftp boot from. (if it's solaris, use
rarpd/ethers, if a pc linux system, use arp and rarp to set up. i'm sure
there are instructions around somewhere)

> Looks like a chicken and egg problem for me.
> Is there a way to make the CD image on Solaris or on a PC-Linux ?
> (or get it via ftp directly)

you can do that. read what he said again. 

-D

Re: More detailed UltraPenguin CD-ROM making instructions

[Steve Dunham]

Jakub Jelinek <jj@sunsite.ms.mff.cuni.cz> writes:

> As I've received a couple of requests for more detailed instructions how to
> make the bootable CD, here they are:

I followed the instructions, and ended up with a CD that would boot
the kernel off of the CD, but then fail with:

  "Unable to mount root filesystem on device: 0b:00"

Any ideas what is wrong?  It is loading the kernel from the CD and the
CDROM is the only CDROM attached to the machine.  The above message is
preceeded by a "media changed on sr0" so I assume it is detecting the
CD and everything.


Steve
dunham@cse.msu.edu

Re: More detailed UltraPenguin CD-ROM making instructions

[Jakub Jelinek]

> 
> Jakub Jelinek <jj@sunsite.ms.mff.cuni.cz> writes:
> 
> > As I've received a couple of requests for more detailed instructions how to
> > make the bootable CD, here they are:
> 
> I followed the instructions, and ended up with a CD that would boot
> the kernel off of the CD, but then fail with:
> 
>   "Unable to mount root filesystem on device: 0b:00"
> 
> Any ideas what is wrong?  It is loading the kernel from the CD and the
> CDROM is the only CDROM attached to the machine.  The above message is
> preceeded by a "media changed on sr0" so I assume it is detecting the
> CD and everything.

Ok, I'd like to know at least some other messages from the kernel.
Did it show some message about initrd being overwritten?
Did it show the CD-ROM listed between SCSI devices?

Cheers,
    Jakub
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Re: More detailed UltraPenguin CD-ROM making instructions

[Steve Dunham]

Jakub Jelinek <jj@sunsite.ms.mff.cuni.cz> writes:

> > 
> > Jakub Jelinek <jj@sunsite.ms.mff.cuni.cz> writes:
> > 
> > > As I've received a couple of requests for more detailed instructions how to
> > > make the bootable CD, here they are:
> > 
> > I followed the instructions, and ended up with a CD that would boot
> > the kernel off of the CD, but then fail with:
> > 
> >   "Unable to mount root filesystem on device: 0b:00"
> > 
> > Any ideas what is wrong?  It is loading the kernel from the CD and the
> > CDROM is the only CDROM attached to the machine.  The above message is
> > preceeded by a "media changed on sr0" so I assume it is detecting the
> > CD and everything.
> 
> Ok, I'd like to know at least some other messages from the kernel.
> Did it show some message about initrd being overwritten?
> Did it show the CD-ROM listed between SCSI devices?

The CD-ROM was listed when it was scanning SCSI devices.  (It was at
target 6.)  I didn't see anything about an initrd, which confused me,
since the /etc/silo.conf has "initrd=" lines.

I have since overwritten the CD with a Red Hat "Raw Hide" CD, which I
created by virtually the same proceedure.  I may give the UltraPenguin
one another try in a few days.


Steve
dunham@cse.msu.edu