Red Hat Linux/UltraSPARC&SPARC 5.0 (UltraPenguin 1.1) ======================================================= This is Linux distribution for SPARC and UltraSPARC based workstations, which is based on Red Hat Linux 5.0 (Hurricane). This distribution is still 32bit on UltraSPARC, sorry, next time you'll get a 64bit. The advantage is that this distribution works on 32bit SPARCs (sun4 (hopefully, SILO not yet, install image neither), sun4c, sun4m, sun4d) and on 64bit SPARCs. To find out more on what hardware is supported, see http://ultra.linux.cz/. This is a beta release, so please install if you'd like to help with fixing the distribution. If you find any bugs, please mail them to sparc-linux@ms.mff.cuni.cz. If everything goes right, we'd like to release the distribution soon. It is a hack of the UltraLinux team, and should be used as that. It is released under GPL. There are really no guarantees and you cannot make Red Hat Software, Inc. liable for anything, as this is really just based on their work. ----------------------------------------------- Original README from Red Hat Linux follows: The contents of this CD-ROM are Copyright (C) 1997 Red Hat Software, Inc. and others. Please see the individual copyright notices in each source package for distribution terms. The distribution terms of the tools copyrighted by Red Hat Software are as noted in the file COPYING. Red Hat, RPM, Red Baron, and glint are trademarks of Red Hat Software, Inc. ============================================================================ DIRECTORY ORGANIZATION This directory is organized as follows: /mnt/redhat |----> RedHat |----> RPMS -- binary packages |----> base -- small filesystem setup archives |----> instimage -- image used for graphical installs |----> trees -- filesystems used for boot and ramdisks |----> images -- boot and ramdisk images |----> dosutils -- installation utilities for DOS |----> doc -- various FAQs and HOWTOs |----> live -- live filesystem |----> COPYING -- copyright information |----> README -- this file |----> RPM-PGP-KEY -- PGP signature for packages from Red Hat | |----> vger.rutgers.edu -- mirror of SPARC ftp files on vger.rutgers.edu |----> metalab.mff.cuni.cz -- mirror of SPARC ftp site metalab.mff.cuni.cz |----> prep.at.mit.edu -- mirror of GNU primary ftp site If you are mirroring to a partition or an NFS volume, you'll need to get everything under RedHat, as well as the disk images from images that you need for your system. ============================================================================ INSTALLING Installation is very straightforward 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 boot.img. Just use rawrite.exe under DOS (from the dos-utils 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. Network installations are also possible. You will need to setup a combination of RARP, ARP, TFTP, NFS, and BOOTP servers to get the kernel to the SPARC and mount the root filesystem from. This is covered in the Red Hat Manual. ============================================================================ SUPPORT There's a mailing list for discussion of this Red Hat release. To subscribe, send mail to redhat-list-request@redhat.com: subscribe in the subject line. You can leave the body empty. ============================================================================ RED HAT LINUX MANUAL If you did not receive documentation with this product, you can order the manual from the Red Hat Software. Red Hat Software can be reached at: (800) 454-5502 (888) RED-HAT1 (919) 572-6500 fax: (919) 572-6726 email: info@redhat.com FTP: ftp://ftp.redhat.com WWW: http://www.redhat.com Red Hat Software Research Triangle Park, NC