[ale] Sparc10

[Dave Brooks]

>From the comment below, a floppy drive is very well bootable on a sun,

but not for solaris.  You can make a sparc boot floppy for RH or Debian.
Make one and try a 'boot floppy' from the ok prompt.

Do a google search for sparc iso's.  If I were you, I would go with Debian,
simply because RH discontinued their sparc port due to disinterest with 6.2,
so the latestand greatest wont be available for sparc on redhat any longer
(this probably means RPMs, unless you want to --rebuild, which probably
wont be your best option on a sparc10).  Debian iso's can be easily built
off their webpage using the pseudo image kit.  I just installed on my sparc4,
it works great.

DAB

> I've located a CD unit.  Can someone point me where I can download a RH
> sparc ISO?  I have a 500mb HDD.  I am loading via serial console.
> 
> Thanks,
> Chris
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jon Uhler [mailto:juhler at eoncc.com]
> Sent: Monday, April 09, 2001 11:58 AM
> To: 'Chris Fowler'
> Subject: RE: [ale] Sparc10
> 
> 
> The floppy device is not a "bootable" device on a Sun.  I do not think
> it is big enough to hold all of the crap needed to boot a sun.
>  
> The older single speed SCSI cd-rom's sould work on the 10.  Set the
> SCSI ID to "6".  Sun looks at "6" for the boot CD.
>  
> Jon
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Fowler [mailto:ChrisF at computone.com]
> Sent: Monday, April 09, 2001 11:54 AM
> To: 'Jon Uhler'
> Subject: RE: [ale] Sparc10
> 
> 
> I do not have CD.  I can try to install via network.  Why is floppy not
> listed?
>  
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jon Uhler [mailto:juhler at eoncc.com]
> Sent: Monday, April 09, 2001 11:50 AM
> To: 'Chris Fowler'
> Subject: RE: [ale] Sparc10
> 
> 
> Chris,
>  
> Do you have a CD rom on this machine?  Can you boot off of the CD to
> verify the disk?
>  
> I have a CD-ROM and media if needed.  Also have a Sparc 20 I want to
> sell.....
>  
> Looks like no bootstrape on the disk.  Sun is also picky on the SCSI id
> numbers.
>  
> Jon
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Fowler [mailto:ChrisF at computone.com]
> Sent: Monday, April 09, 2001 11:46 AM
> To: 'Jon Uhler'
> Cc: 'ale at ale.org'
> Subject: RE: [ale] Sparc10
> 
> 
> Here is what I have done 
> ok probe-scsi 
> Target 1 
>   Unit 0   Disk     QUANTUM P105SS 910-10-94A.1 08/31/89005090092 
>                     GENERIC 
> ok probe-scsi-all 
> /iommu at f,e0000000/sbus at f,e0001000/espdma at f,400000/esp at f,800000 
> Target 1 
>   Unit 0   Disk     QUANTUM P105SS 910-10-94A.1 08/31/89005090092 
>                     GENERIC 
> 
> 
> ok boot /iommu at f,e0000000/sbus at f,e0001000/espdma at f,400000/esp at f,800000 
> Boot device:
> /iommu at f,e0000000/sbus at f,e0001000/espdma at f,400000/esp at f,800000 File and
> args: 
> Boot load failed 
> ok 
> -----Original Message----- 
> From: Jon Uhler [mailto:juhler at eoncc.com] 
> Sent: Monday, April 09, 2001 11:45 AM 
> To: 'Chris Fowler' 
> Subject: RE: [ale] Sparc10 
> 
> 
> Chris, 
>   
> You need to do a stop a or a break during boot to get to the boot
> prompt (ok>) then change boot device..... 
> -----Original Message----- 
> From: Chris Fowler [mailto:ChrisF at computone.com] 
> Sent: Monday, April 09, 2001 11:34 AM 
> To: 'ale at ale.org' 
> Subject: [ale] Sparc10 
> 
> 
> I have a sparc10 I want to run Linux on.  I need to load Linux on the
> unit and the unit tries to boot from Ethernet.  How can I disable that?
> I keep getting the following error message: 
> 
> 
> Timeout waiting for ARP/RARP packet 
> I can use arp to provide an address, but I need to boot from the hdd to
> see if Solaris is loaded.  Hoe do I tell the system to boot from the
> drive not Ethernet.  I'm not using video, I'm using serial console.
> Chris 


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