How to install Linux systems in SPARC (1)

Departmental machine upgrades, the elimination of a number of older machines, including the Ultra series of SPARC models, 64M memory, 2.1G hard disk, Solaris 9 has indicated that it does not support 64m memory, installed Solaris 8 and really lazy to play patch, not to mention, so small hard drive , the Solaris 8 has been installed and there is no room for service, and Solaris is not as easy to use as Linux for workstations. When using Gentoo, I have seen it support quite a few versions, such as Alpha,x86 (the most commonly used), Amd64,sparc ... Well, SPARC, that's it.

Visit Gentoo official homepage, http://www.gentoo.org. The latest version of 2005.0, which is just released, seems to be a good opportunity not only to test SPARC Gentoo Linux, but also to test the new version. Check at the site, the official list of minimum requirements:

SPARC Systems	(Give it a moment)
Cpu	Supports only SPARC64 CPUs
Memory	MB
Disk	1.5 GB (excluding swap partitions)
Swap partitions	At least 256 MB

(Note: The above swap partition size, in fact, can be reduced to 128M, due to worry about the hard drive, I tried to use only the 128m swap partition when the installation, and finally confirmed that the installation can be completed successfully.) ）

So what do the Gentoo-supported SPARC systems contain in the Sun's series??

o UltraSPARC Sbus based workstations:ultra1, Ultra2, Ultra1 Creator, Ultra2 Creator

o UltraSPARC Sbus based Servers:netra I, Enterprise 1, 2, 150

o UltraSPARC Sbus based large servers:enterprise 3000, 3500, 4000, 4500, 5000, 6000, 6500, 10000

o UltraSPARC PCI based board Computers:sparcengine CP1400 (1,3), CP1500 (1)

o UltraSPARC PCI based Workstations:ultra30, Ultraaxe, Ultraaxi, ULTRAAXMP, Ultra5, Ultra10, Ultra60, ULTRA80, Sunblade 1 1000 Sunblade

o UltraSPARC PCI based Servers:netra X1 (2), Netra T Series (3), Fire V100, Fire V120, Enterprise 250, 450

View the above table, our ULTRA1 is also ranked among them ... Well, let's go into Gentoo's SPARC journey with the sky.

The first is to download the 2005.0 Gentoo CD, to Http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/mirrors.xml to see, well, n more sites. Look for it nearby. According to my test, the download speed in http://mirror.gentoo.gr.jp/is more ideal.

Gentoo's boot CD is divided into 2 kinds, one is only about 50m of the mini disk, only the CD-ROM boot and basic tools of the role, another called Universal, the Stage1,stage3 these packages. Under normal circumstances, if the network environment is better, then you can choose to lower the mini disk, and then rely on the network to download the immediate compilation of the way to extract the highest performance, but here is to the old machine for a new dowry, so use the universal disc good.

Here in Http://mirror.gentoo.gr.jp/releases/sparc/2005.0/sparc64/installcd/install-sparc64-universal-2005.0.iso, Download the optical mirror, then use the http://mirror.gentoo.gr.jp/releases/sparc/2005.0/sparc64/installcd/ INSTALL-SPARC64-UNIVERSAL-2005.0.ISO.MD5 provides the MD5 code for CD-ROM verification, to see if the download is correct, then you can make a plate. In the MD5 check, Linux and other operating systems can use the md5sum command, and win under the use of WINMD5 and other tools. In the days of the first download, ie direct download, the results of the check code is not consistent with the situation, and later download the download tool is normal, please pay attention to, otherwise with the wrong disk to follow up the operation will be quite sleepy around.

Well, after the disc is burned, you can throw it into the optical drive. Reboot Ultra 1, press Stop+a key until the OK prompt symbol appears, and then enter

Boot CDROM

A boot prompt symbol appears after

Welcome to Gentoo SPARC Linux//

Version 2005.0//

Boot

In this direct return, will give a hint, let the input gentoo-2.4 boot, or GENTOO-2.4-SMP to support multiple CPUs, for ultra1 such an old machine, directly input gentoo-2.4, and then enter the bar.

Then a black screen, a small penguin holding the sun on the top left, began to start work.

Well... Wait, wait, about 30 seconds, start completion, stay in the LIVECD linux# hint symbol, so, CD-ROM boot complete, we can start the installation work.

For Unix-like operating systems, there is no network and so on half crippled, we should first configure the network.

First, look at the card on the machine to recognize it?

#ifconfig –a

Eth0 Link encap:ethernet hwaddr 08:00:20:82:c4:df

Up broadcast RUNNING multicast mtu:1500 metric:1

RX packets:4278 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0

TX packets:78 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0

collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000

RX bytes:260108 (254.0 KB) TX bytes:10758 (10.5 kb)

Interrupt:64

eth1 Link encap:ethernet hwaddr 08:00:20:82:c4:df

Broadcast Multicast mtu:1500 metric:1

RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0

TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0

collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000

RX bytes:0　(0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

interrupt:224

Lo Link encap:local Loopback

inet addr:127.0.0.1 mask:255.0.0.0

Up loopback RUNNING mtu:16436 metric:1

RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0

TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0

collisions:0 txqueuelen:0

RX bytes:0　(0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)