On Friday, May 06, 2011 07:40:27 PM A E [Gmail] wrote:
Ok, I guess I was wrong. Netinst ISOs are only available for
v12-beta, so I
guess that's the one to try and the installation is just any other install
over the net like I did for debian in the same environment with the use of
rarpd, tftp etc? I have never understood though how to install the full
distribution using NFS, I suppose once I have the minimal net install, I
need a local repo to point to?
Yes. AFAIK that's the same as for Intel, so the docs are pretty good for that part.
The installs that I have done thus far have all been local media, though. And you will
want to use the VNC graphical installer, since the text mode installer is rather minimal.
Also, you'll want/need to take the installer's defaults; don't try to do
anything fancy or change too many things during the install, as anaconda seems to be
somewhat unstable on SPARC.
Which specific SunFire boxen are we talking about here? PCI, or SBUS? The more details
the better, as the docs for the SPARC stuff really are sparse, and are primarily found in
the archives of this list.
SBUS in particular can be painful, since udev doesn't autodetect SBUS devices as of
F12.