RE: [suse-sparc] SuSE 7.3 Installation on SPARCstation 10

From: L. Christopher Luther (CLuther_at_Xybernaut.com)
Date: Sat Jun 15 2002 - 00:56:42 CEST

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From: "L. Christopher Luther" <CLuther@Xybernaut.com>
Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2002 18:56:42 -0400
Subject: RE: [suse-sparc] SuSE 7.3 Installation on SPARCstation 10

    Thanks, Thomas, for the quick reply. I've already gotten the CD booted, and
    I'll check out the FAQs you sent me.

    - Christopher

    -----Original Message-----
    From: Thomas Maisl [mailto:tom@maisl.net]
    Sent: Friday, June 14, 2002 6:36 PM
    To: L. Christopher Luther
    Subject: Re: [suse-sparc] SuSE 7.3 Installation on SPARCstation 10

    > "L. Christopher Luther" schrieb:
    >
    > I've got a SPARCstation 10 (7-8 years old or more) w/ 64M of RAM and a few
    > GB of diskspace scattered about three or so drives. This puppy is also
    > still running Solaris 2.4.nnnn.
    >
    > My questions:
    >
    > Q1: I've got the SuSE 7.3 ISO CDs for SPARC. Is it possible to make the
    > sparc boot using the CD (I presume the ISO's are bootable) and install
    > SuSE? If so, how? If not, ???
    yes,
    attach a CD-Rom-Drive with ID6,
    while booting - press STOP+A - you get the boot-prompt,
    type "boot cdrom" - and off you go.
    Maybe you have to change the sector size of the cd-rom.

    >
    > Q2: Is it possible to low-level the SCSI drives before installing SuSE?
    If
    > so, how?
    http://www.ultralinux.org/faq.html
    and more faq e.g.
    http://bigadmin.sun.com

    good luck
    Thomas

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