Equipment Used

• SPARCclassic
• 16 MB RAM
• 535 MB Hard Drive
• 17" Monitor

Getting Started

Make a boot floppy from the boot.img file with dd.

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1. From firmware mode type: boot floppy

   SILO (Sparc Improved LOader) will boot. Press enter at boot: prompt or wait for the time out to occur. A series of questions will be asked where responses may be determined by your specific hardware and network environment.

2. Are you using a color monitor?
   yes

3. Installation Method
   • Local CDROM
   • NFS Image
   • hard drive
   • FTP

4. Installation Path
   • Install
   • Upgrade

5. Partition Disks
   • Done
   • Edit/dev/dsa
   • Cancel

   Use menu to set 64 MB Linux Swap and rest of disk to Linux Native. An overlap partition must exist describing the whole disk. Save parition information to get back to the installation.

   • Done
   • Edit
   • Cancel

6. Activate swap space

   [*]

   /dev/sda2

   1632

   1866

   65520K

7. Configure TCP/IP

   []	Configure device with bootp

   IP Address:	xxx	.	yyy	.	zzz	.	www
   Netmask:	255	.	255	.	255	.	0
   Default gateway (IP):	xxx	.	yyy	.	zzz	.	250
   Primary nameserver:	xxx	.	yyy	.	sss	.	ttt

8. Configure Network

   Domain name:	(auto)
   Host name:	(auto)
   Secondary nameserver (IP):	(optional)
   Tertiary nameserver (IP):	(optional)

9. FTP Setup

   FTP site name:
   Red Hat directory:	/linux/redhat/rh4.1/sparc

10. Select Root Partition

    [*]

    /dev/sda1

    0

    1632

    456960K

11. Format Partitions

    [*]

    /dev/sda1

    /

    [*]

    Check for bad blocks during format

12. Choose components to install:

    [*]	Everything

13. Network Configuration
    • Keep this setup
    • Reconfigure network now
    • Don't setup networking

14. Configure Timezones

    Format Machine time stored in:

    [] Hardware clock set to GMT

    What timezone are you in

    US/Eastern

15. Root Password

    Password	: cs691x
    Password (again)	: cs691x

16. Where do you want to install the boot loader?

    /dev/sda	Master Boot Record
    /dev/sda1	First sector of root partition
    /dev/fd0	First sector of floppy disk

Configuring X

cd /usr/X11R6.1/bin

rm X

ln -s Xsun X