bootable CD image

bootable CD image

[Ryan Cresawn]

A friend and I were talking and came to the conclusion that someone
should make available an ISO9660 image file online.  Therefore making
a CD would be very easy no matter which platform you were currently
using.  You could even make it in Windows [9N][58T].  Also you
wouldn't have to go through so many steps, including making the /dev
directory and the files in it.

-- 
Ryan

Re: bootable CD image

[Jakub Jelinek]

> 
> A friend and I were talking and came to the conclusion that someone
> should make available an ISO9660 image file online.  Therefore making
> a CD would be very easy no matter which platform you were currently
> using.  You could even make it in Windows [9N][58T].  Also you
> wouldn't have to go through so many steps, including making the /dev
> directory and the files in it.

The image is online already
(ftp://1000e.ms.mff.cuni.cz/private/local/jj/UltraLinux/up11cd/)
but it won't run on Ultra30, 60 and others which have the CD-ROM connected
to NCR, Adaptec or Qlogic SCSI adapters. SBUS Ultras should be fine (you'll
probably have the CD-ROM on ESP), IDE Ultras are as well. I'm working on a
fix for this and will release updates soon (but I'd like to fix multiple
bugs at once, together with TILO support for older sun4c and fixed SILO for
initrd (as someone reported on Ultra30)).

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

[ebrower]

Jakub et al,

Would it not be possible to create a partitioned bootable CD image
similar to SunOS/Solaris install CDs which could contain a bootable
partition for sun4c/m/u and a second partition for sun4?

I may be off-base here, but I believe that a sun4-specific kernel
could not be used on a sun4c/m/u, and this might just solve the
problem.  Having a unified install media is more interesting to
me than the SRPMS in this instance.

E

Re: bootable CD image

[Jakub Jelinek]

> 
> Jakub et al,
> 
> Would it not be possible to create a partitioned bootable CD image
> similar to SunOS/Solaris install CDs which could contain a bootable
> partition for sun4c/m/u and a second partition for sun4?

It would be possible to have there just the 40k of the installer on the
other partition. SILO already handles multiple kernels (sun4u uses a
different one to sun4c/m/d). The problem is that noone wrote sun4 support
for SILO, and I don't have any sun4 machines nor access to them, so I cannot
write it. I was already asking on the list if anyone wants to write it, but
noone answered.

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).
___________________________________________________________________