SPARC-HOWTO.

• Index
• Preface.
• SPARC, which one ?
• Buying a SPARC computer.
• SPARC based laptops
• The wonderful SparcStation Voyager
• Sun's Netra servers
• Sun's Enterprise servers
• Tatung's Workstations
• Tatung's SPARC Servers
• Fujitsu's supercomputers
• Linux on SPARC: 2 kernels.
• Choosing a distribution.
• Installing Linux
• Working with the Openboot.
• Hard drive buses.
• CDROM: specific settings.
• SILO.
• Compiling a kernel
• Keyboard and mouse.
• X Window.
• SMP.
• The sound.
• Serial port.
• Ressources.
• Thanks and Credits.
• Copyright, Disclaimer and Trademarks
• Revision History.

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16. CDROM: specific settings.

The easiest way to install linux on SPARC computer is to use a CDROM. If your computer does not have a CDROM you can plug an external SCSI CDROM drive, but there are two things to do or you are doomed to fail:

• When you issue the boot cdrom command, the CDROM is mapped to ID number 6.
• Your CDROM player's block size should be setted up on 512.

As a rule of thumb, nearly all SCSI CDROM drives can be assigned to ID number 6 but you should check if the block size setting can be changed.

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