From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jakub Jelinek Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1998 07:28:43 +0000 Subject: Re: detail on how to install UltraPenguin on Sun Ultra10 Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: ultralinux@vger.kernel.org > > Hello all Linux experts, > > I am a newbie to Linux but have experience with Sun Solaris. I have a > Ultra10 (solaris2.6), and will like to install UltraPenguin to evaluate > this much appraise freeware. So far, i have search around so many > archive and none telling me the detailed procedure to install UltraLinux > from scratch. I don't know where should i start to do the installation > even after searching around the net for such a long time > > The best i find is from Korey's "Installing Ultra Linux 1.0.9 on > Ultra5", > http://brethren.dyn.ml.org:8080/sunUltra5/installingUltrapenguin.html > > but he also did not mention what files i need to download, and where to > put it (on which hard disk)...and all other details... > > Do i need another Sun machine (i have a Sun Sparc 20 running Solaris2.5 > also) in order to do the installation? I am thinking like storing all > the distribution files on one machine, and boot it from another > machine! Or can i store the distribution and boot with the Ultra10? > > Is it anyway to get a CD media?? i heard that this is the simplest and > easiest way to do it. > > Can someone kindly show me all the detailed steps to do a installation > of UltraPenguin on Ultra10? > > I am so frustrated that installing UltraPenguin is so much difficult > compare to what i did with solaris2.6 (just boot cdrom)! It is not all that difficult. If you have the CD-ROM (ftp://1000e.ms.mff.cuni.cz/private/local/jj/UltraLinux/up11cd/ then, unless your CD-ROM hangs from Adaptec/NCR SCSI, you should be able just to boot that CD-ROM. If you have CD-ROM on Adaptec/NCR SCSI, then you will need to take the images/tftpboot.img from the CD-ROM and put it on some tftp server (detailed instructions on setting up a tftp server are on http://ultra.penguin.cz/), boot net and specify Local CD-ROM as a method of installation. If you don't want to download and burn a CD-ROM, just download the images/tftpboot.img from any ultrapenguin-1.1 mirror (listed in ftp://ultra.penguin.cz/pub/ultrapenguin-1.1/.message) or the master site, put it on tftp server, boot net, specify installation method FTP and choose the FTP you want to download (and append sparc/ to the path listed in my .message files, e.g. ftp://ultra.penguin.cz/pub/ultrapenguin-1.1/sparc/) If you have both Creator and Mach64 (=ATY, =PGX), then make sure you pass video=atyfb:off parameter during boot as well (e.g. boot cdrom linux video=atyfb:off or boot net video=atyfb:off). That's about it. If you'll have some problems, come back on the list. 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 2.1.128 on a sparc64 machine (498.80 BogoMips). ___________________________________________________________________