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/Quote James Brown>I feeel goood......../EndQuote James Brown>
When I got the welcome-screen from RedHat Linux i recognized the following screens where I
choose language, and type of media that contains the packages to be installed, where I
choose FTP.
I followed the instructions on the screen and then it was time to partition the disk. In
earlier versions of Linux there was no fdisk utility for Sparc. So you had to
partition the designated Linux disk with the SunOS or Solaris format utility. But in
RedHat v5.2 for SPARC you can choose between Disk Druid or the fdisk utility
when you choose to edit the disk.
If the disk is new you have to choose s in fdisk to set a sun disklabel. If
the disk is not on the drive list, choose 0 and manually type in the drive
specifications. I've found out that on the Seagate drives that I've tested I always had to
feed a value 2 cylinders smaller for data cylinders than in the given
specifications. Then add 2 alternate cylinders (really the 2 cylinders used for the
label) and agree to a value for physical cylinders that matches the value found in the
specifications.
In any case, after further reading of miscellaneous "HOW-TOs" I were advised
against starting the ext2 filesystem on cylinder 0 but recommended to start it on cylinder
1 because the disk label of Sun is longer than the one Linux is used to and so Linux would
have troubles recognizing the filesystem.
This is true of both SunOS (or Solaris) and Linux shall be on the same machine. If only
Linux is to be installed, it's important to start with Linux native (ext2) on
cylinder 0, and put swap in the second partition. If swap starts on cylinder 0 the you get
trouble reading the partition table.
Following the instructions on the screen I came to the section where I had to indicate the
"Mount Point" of the current disk partitions. Since I had one swap and
one native partition I sat the "Mount Point" of the native partition to
"/" (root).
The partition overview reported the structure a bit strange on the original disk (swap
listed three times and total free space set to -44Mb (??)) but I carried on...... When I
changed the disk to a new one it all seemed fine.
Since you had to set up an other computer as boot and ftp-server I assume that you can
manage the rest on your own as you get the same screens hereafter. The one thing that is
different (if you installed the other computer from other than ftp) is that you have to
state the name or ip-address of the ftp-server and the directory containing the
rpm-packages.
Only one small thing.. After I changed disc on the Sparcstation it will not boot
directly. The new disc are on the same controller, and have the same id. To boot now I
have to type the following at the boot-prompt:
>b sd(0,3,0)
To change this so it became the default I typed "n"
at the boot prompt to get new command mode ("ok"
prompt instead of ">"):
>n
ok setenv boot-from sd(0,3,0)
Now everything works just fine..
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