On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 12:12:25PM -0400, Mark Mohrmann wrote: |Good Afternoon: | |Anyone care to help me with the install on a SPARCstation 5. |I've had exactly 6 days experience with Linux software and |SUN hardware. | |Any help will be appreciated. Thanks.
It works well. I did this and installed Debian for the first time in my life on something different than x86 about 3-4 days ago. It took me about 4 hours to figure some things. Some part of the hardware is broken in my case, so it was more complicated. 1. When you partition you HAVE to create "Sun disk label". In fdisk you have to press s create a new empty Sun disklabel 2. SUN loader has some limitations in my case and I advise you to create /boot on separate partition. Make it 10-15 MB and put it in the first place Here is my: Disk /dev/sda (Sun disk label): 141 heads, 62 sectors, 1014 cylinders Units = cylinders of 8742 * 512 bytes Device Flag Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 0 6 26226 83 Linux native /dev/sda2 u 1003 1014 48081 82 Linux swap /dev/sda3 0 1014 4432194 5 Whole disk /dev/sda4 6 1003 4357887 83 Linux native /dev/sda4 on / type ext2 (rw,grpquota,usrquota) proc on /proc type proc (rw) devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620) /dev/sda1 on /boot type ext2 (rw,errors=remount-ro) 3. You must have "Whole disk" exactly on sda3 to keep the compatibility with SUN. 4. There is documentation about SUN loader on the SUN web. Find it and have a look at it. 5. As far as I can see for now, SILO is not exactly like LILO (x86 loader for Linux). I don't know much more, but keep this in mind. --JS
