RE: 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:[email protected]]
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