[ale] Gentoo on UltraSparc?

[Chris Ricker]

On Sun, 24 Aug 2003, Ray Knight wrote:

> > You'll want to do a network install, which will work like setting up a 
> > Solaris network boot server (tftpd + rarpd). You can install off of CD, but 
> > if you do you'll probably have to use a non-Sun CD -- the Sun CD drives 
> > don't like to boot off of home-burned CDs in most cases.
> > 
> 
> You can use the Sun CD drive, just make sure you burn the CD's at 4X or
> less.  For some reason the Sun CD drives won't boot a CD burned above
> 4X.  Since my burner will only do a max of 4X I didn't have any
> problems!

That really depends. On newer Suns, it won't matter how slow you burn it, it
still probably won't boot, at least in my experience. For example, on the
Sun Blades, I've never gotten it to boot off of a home burn, even using 1x,
unless I swapped the drive for a non-Sun one. On Ultra 10s / 30s, it seems
to require older OBP, so you can choose between DHCP support for boot net or
home-burned CD-ROM support.... My Netras don't have CD-ROMs, so I've never
tried on them.

On older Sparc-era equipment, the slow burn trick seems to work well.

later,
chris
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