Thanks for the site/URL. I downloaded the tftp64.img and was able to get my SunFire V120 (UltraSPARC-IIe) to see the image and load it via my CentOS 5 rarpd server.
However, I guess I am running into some sort of brick wall when it comes to CentOS loading the correct NIC driver to assign an IP address to the server. The V120's on-board network card is coming up as a eri0 and eri1 (Sun RIO 10/100 Ethernet [eri]).
If there a way to configure the command line via LOM interface it so it loads the correct NIC driver, sets the ip, etc? I though about something like kickstart, but the tftp64.img doesn't come up to a CentOS Linux window -- just goes directly to where it starts loading drivers for the SCSI drives, then waiting for the language location.
-- Michael
Johnny Hughes wrote:
Michael Worsham wrote:
Long ago, there was a CentOS build for Sparc under version 4.2 Beta. I checked for the torrents for either the DVD and CD binary or source isos, but no one is seeding that anymore as well. The old Sparc 4.2 beta repo was found here: http://beta.centos.org/centos/4.2beta/isos/sparc/ ... but that doesn't have enough information to even attempt a netinstall or a tftp/rarpd boot/install.
Then just recently, I saw this CentOS announcement/post:
"We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of CentOS-5.2 for the i386 and x86_64 Architectures. [...] Further Arch support for PowerPC, IA64 and Sparc are planned and will be released soon. These arch's will follow the existing pattern of release to Beta first, and then to Final."
Reference: http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2008-June/014999.html
So, my question is... when is a Sparc beta release going to be available for 5.x?
There is a very alpha release here:
However, the code base and gcc/glibc (even for c5) is old and not so stable for sparc.
That is based on 5.1 code ... I will be trying to build for 5.2 soon
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