<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2 Final//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="SGML-Tools 1.0.9"> <TITLE>SPARC-HOWTO.: Installing Linux</TITLE> <LINK HREF="SPARC-HOWTO-14.html" REL=next> <LINK HREF="SPARC-HOWTO-12.html" REL=previous> <LINK HREF="SPARC-HOWTO.html#toc13" REL=contents> </HEAD> <BODY> <A HREF="SPARC-HOWTO-14.html">Next</A> <A HREF="SPARC-HOWTO-12.html">Previous</A> <A HREF="SPARC-HOWTO.html#toc13">Contents</A> <HR> <H2><A NAME="s13">13. Installing Linux</A></H2> <P> <P>To install Linux on a SPARC based computer, should be strightforward if you follow the informations provided by your distribution. <P>To boot from a floppy drive you have to have an install image on a floppy disk and to issue the <CODE>boot floppy</CODE> from the OpenBoot. <P>If your computer does not have a CDROM or a floppy drive, you can always try to perform a network installation using <CODE>NFS</CODE> as explained by this French document: <A HREF="http://www.linux-france.org/article/materiel/sparc-install/Sparc-netinstall.html">http://www.linux-france.org/article/materiel/sparc-install/Sparc-netinstall.html</A> . Basicaly, you have to set up an <CODE>NFS</CODE> server and to boot your computer using the <CODE>boot net vmlinux nfsroot=192.168.52.12:/tmp</CODE> in order to access the image that is exported by the <CODE>192.168.52.12</CODE> computer on the <CODE>/tmp</CODE> directory. Another source of information, this one is written in English, is this FAQ from the UltraLinux website ( <A HREF="http://www.ultralinux.org/faq.html#q_5_9">http://www.ultralinux.org/faq.html#q_5_9</A> ) <P> <HR> <A HREF="SPARC-HOWTO-14.html">Next</A> <A HREF="SPARC-HOWTO-12.html">Previous</A> <A HREF="SPARC-HOWTO.html#toc13">Contents</A> </BODY> </HTML>
