[suse-sparc] Antwort: [suse-sparc] Help with installing Suse on a Sparc LX

From: Thomas Schmid (Thomas.Schmid@ascom.ch)
Date: Mon Nov 12 2001 - 04:33:13 PST

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From: "Thomas Schmid" <Thomas.Schmid@ascom.ch>
Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2001 13:33:13 +0100
Subject: [suse-sparc] Antwort: [suse-sparc] Help with installing Suse on a Sparc LX

    Hi Jean,

    Basically you need a machine running RARP daemon and a NFS server (can
    be the same machine). On the RARPD machine, you place the bootimage for
    32bit SPARC (tftp32.img) in a directory (usually "/tftpboot").

    Then create a link in the same directory to the image, the link's name is

    "<IP-address in hex>.SUN4M"; for IP address 192.168.1.1 it would be
    "C0A80101.SUN4M".

    Then fill the rarp's cache with the IP-address / ethernet-address pair
    for the
    SS LX. ("rarp -s <IP-address> <ethernet-address>")

    For the NFS server, you have to mount the CD1 of the SuSE distro, and
    export
    it for the LX (using the IP address it will have after booting via RARP /
    TFTP)

    After all that boot your LX, go into openprom (with Stop-A), at the
    "ok"-prompt type
    "boot net nfsroot <IP-address of rarp-machine>:/tftpboot linux". It then
    should down-
    load the 32bit boot image and startup with yast's installation screen.
    From there
    you (at some point) will have the possibility to chose the install source:
    chose
    your NFS server. After that the installation should procede as if it would
    run from
    local resources.

    For RARP it seems you need a kernel 2.2.x machine, "rarpd" in this form is
    not
    around anymore with kernel 2.4.x; but I have not spent a lot of time
    looking....

    Better and deeper explanation of the whole process you can find at
    UltraLinux FAQ:
    http://www.ultralinux.org/faq.html#q_5_10

    Hope it help
    Thomas

    >Hi

    >I would like to install SuSE on a Sparc LX system. I am familiar
    >with SuSe, but not with its installation on Sun systems, particularly
    >when they have no floppy and no CD. I guess I should make a 'boot net',
    >but what do I need to setup on another system as server?

    >Thanks a lot

    >Jean-Noel Colin 

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