Hi All,
I see that sparc.centos.org does not contain any ISO's so that I can install from CD.
How does one install over the internet? I have never done it before.
I assume use the boot.iso and make sure that I have DHCP turned on so that I get an IP automatically from my router?
Any advice?
-Jason
HI!
Quoting Slack-Moehrle mailinglists@mailnewsrss.com:
I assume use the boot.iso and make sure that I have DHCP turned on so that I get an IP automatically from my router?
At bootpromt say "linux askmethod", and make your config (http://dokuwiki.nausch.org/doku.php?id=centos:centos_5_internetinstallation). O.K. The wiki is in German, but it should useful for your installation. For further support, say hello! ;)
ttyl, Django
I see that sparc.centos.org does not contain any ISO's so that I can install from CD. How does one install over the internet? I have never done it before. I assume use the boot.iso and make sure that I have DHCP turned on so that I get an IP automatically from my router? -Jason
Hi Jason,
Check out this on my blog, boot from web: http://csmorley.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!990C0A249621766!157.entry
Maybe this will help?
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Hi,
On 01/04/2010 01:59 PM, Chris Morley wrote:
Check out this on my blog, boot from web: http://csmorley.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!990C0A249621766!157.entry
Maybe this will help?
ok, so I am going to take a wild guess and assume that you have never used sparc hardware, ever.
Hi,
On 01/03/2010 07:38 PM, Slack-Moehrle wrote:
I see that sparc.centos.org does not contain any ISO's so that I can install from CD.
Firstly, the sparc port isnt all done - or supported. But it would be awesome to get some traction around that and actually get it finished.
How does one install over the internet? I have never done it before.
The first step is to get the installer images into the machine, and I dont think OBP will let you do that. You will need some sort of a local network based boot process. The one I use at home is semi-documented here :
http://www.karan.org/blog/index.php/2008/03/01/network-booting-sparc-obp-mac...
I know some of the text is getting cut off on the right side of the post, need to do something about that :/ but you should be able to get most of the content.
Also, as a matter of interest ( and to document it ) what sort of hardware are you installing to ?
Am Montag, den 04.01.2010, 15:18 +0100 schrieb Karanbir Singh:
Hi,
On 01/03/2010 07:38 PM, Slack-Moehrle wrote:
I see that sparc.centos.org does not contain any ISO's so that I can install from CD.
Firstly, the sparc port isnt all done - or supported. But it would be awesome to get some traction around that and actually get it finished.
Since redhat does not accept sparc-specific patches it is simply to frustrating to do the sparc thing. And what is the furture of the sparc architecture in general?
Chris
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On 01/05/2010 12:33 PM, Christoph Maser wrote:
Since redhat does not accept sparc-specific patches it is simply to frustrating to do the sparc thing. And what is the furture of the sparc architecture in general?
Are redhat really refusing sparc specific patches ? I know the fedora sparc guys are moderately active, and there is sparc support in anaconda / yum / rpm and glibc..
I'm looking at it from the point of view that there is a lot of sparc hardware around, and CentOS, with its long life span is an ideal candidate to run on there - also given that the base does not change that much during the lifeterm, the amount of engineering that needs doing to make CentOS/sparc happen isnt that much, and once done - may not be too much of work.
If there is momentum around the idea and there are a few people willing to take up the efforts required I am quite happy to work with and make sure that a CentOS Sparc effort is possible. But I dont want to take on the whole thing myself - and my own sparc experience is quite limited ( although I have a blade1k and a netra 240, both of which I will make available to the effort ).
Am Dienstag, den 05.01.2010, 14:28 +0100 schrieb Karanbir Singh:
On 01/05/2010 12:33 PM, Christoph Maser wrote:
Since redhat does not accept sparc-specific patches it is simply to frustrating to do the sparc thing. And what is the furture of the sparc architecture in general?
Are redhat really refusing sparc specific patches ?
Here they did: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=436038
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On 01/05/2010 03:49 PM, Christoph Maser wrote:
Are redhat really refusing sparc specific patches ?
Here they did: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=436038
In cases like that we would just need to maintain our own sparc patchset. I dont think there is any way to work around that.
Slack-Moehrle wrote:
Hi All,
I see that sparc.centos.org does not contain any ISO's so that I can install from CD.
How does one install over the internet? I have never done it before.
older sparcs use a different network boot sequence than PCs, they do NOT use bootp or PXE. rather, they use RARP -> bootparam -> tftp ->. nfs
Solaris refers to this process as jumpstart. at the openboot prompt ("Ok"), you simply enter `boot net`, the host does a RARP to get the bootparam server's IP, the bootparam service provides the host with the TFTP configuration information, and the host then gets the boot loader from tftp, and then this generally loads the rest of the OS from NFS.
On 01/04/2010 04:54 PM, John R Pierce wrote:
from tftp, and then this generally loads the rest of the OS from NFS.
Once the installer is running from the tftp images, you can install over http ( and therefore over the internet as well ), but you do need a local tftp setup. Also, some OBP's let you use dhcp instead of rarp ( although I'm still using rarp ).
Karanbir Singh wrote:
On 01/04/2010 04:54 PM, John R Pierce wrote:
from tftp, and then this generally loads the rest of the OS from NFS.
Once the installer is running from the tftp images, you can install over http ( and therefore over the internet as well ), but you do need a local tftp setup. Also, some OBP's let you use dhcp instead of rarp ( although I'm still using rarp ).
yeah, newer openboot support PXE(dhcp), but the OP said Ultra 10, which I suspect predates this.
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