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  From: Brad J <bjones@rebel.net.au>
  To  : 'Linux SA' <linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au>
  Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 16:57:24 +1030

Re: Boot Disk for Sparc Linux - Newbie

Hi,
rawrite is most probably the program you want should be on your cd somwhere.
http://www.redhat.com/support/docs/faqs/rhl_general_faq/FAQ-4.html#ss4.3
Just remeber to replace the boot image given with the sparc one suited for
your machine. (i dont know much about sparc linux, i use OpenBsd)

http://www.ultralinux.org/
http://www.ultralinux.org/faq.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/hardware/sparc/61/rh61-hardware.sparc.html

All found within about 60seconds of looking, i have one question did you
actully even look on www.redhat.com or on the cd for howtos ? Faq? help ?
selflearning ?
ftp://ftp.redhat.com/redhat/redhat-6.1/sparc/README
(which also should be on the cd)
"Installation is very straight forward on the SPARC.  The easiest way is
using a CD-ROM of Red Hat Linux for the SPARC.  Simply drop the CD in
your drive and at the PROM prompt type "boot cdrom" and you should be
presented with an install.  If you are unable to do that for some reason,
you can boot via the network or via floppy.  The images directory on the
CD contains a floppy boot images.  Just choose the right one for your system
and use rawrite.exe under DOS (from the dosutils dir on the CD) or dd under
a *nix variant to write the image to a floppy and then boot it with
'boot floppy' or 'boot fd()' from the PROM prompt."

Also suggested reading
www.openbsd.org
http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq4.html
They tend to have alot more sparc related information.

Brad

> Hello,
>
> Considering I havent been able to get my sun cdrom unit booting, I need to
> create a boot disk from the Redhat 6.1 for Sparc
> CD, this needs to be created on a windows NT PC. Could someone lead me in
> the right direction?
>
> Regards,
>
> Neil Ridley
>
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