sparcstation 20: bootable cd's?

josh · Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2005 1:45 pm Post subject: sparcstation 20: bootable cd's?

I recently aquired a sparcstation 20. I really want to put gentoo on it. But I saw there were only bootable iso's for the 64bit chips. No big deal, I will find some other cd that I can boot to and then fetch stage one over the internet and install. Well, I can't find any bootable cd's taht will give me a command line. I found a debian cd and it is installing now. Is there any bootable media that I could use to accomplish what I'm trying to do? Keep in mind, this is my first encounter with a sparc, so I know practically nothing abut it.
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-Josh

gust4voz · Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2005 2:56 pm Post subject:

Check in the experimental section in the mirrors, there's an experimental 2005.0 beta testing no support livecd.
It should kinda work on ss20, unless you have hypersparc, YMMV.
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josh · Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2005 3:27 pm Post subject:

Thanks man. It appears to be a SuperSparc II. I'll try that out. I do have another question though: I did get debian to install. However, at install time it showed there was a Seagate 2.1G SCSI drive. dmesg also reports this. But when I tried to partition it, the most I can get out of it is about 200M. Is there some sparc taboo knowledge I'm missing here? I've only tried to use fdisk.
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gust4voz · Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2005 9:24 pm Post subject:

fdisk auto partitiong isn't too good sometimes, try looking up the disk parameters and entering the values by hand when doing the sun disklabel.
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Gentoo/SPARC monkey