Red Hat Linux/SPARC 4.2 (Biltmore)
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DIRECTORY ORGANIZATION

This directory is organized as follows:

/mnt/redhat
 |----> RedHat
          |----> RPMS         -- binary packages
          |----> base         -- small filesystem setup archives
          |----> instimage    -- image used for graphical installs
 |----> trees                 -- filesystems used for boot and ramdisks
 |----> images                -- boot and ramdisk images
 |----> dosutils              -- installation utilities for DOS
 |----> doc                   -- various FAQs and HOWTOs
 |----> live                  -- live filesystem
 |----> COPYING               -- copyright information
 |----> README                -- this file
 |----> RPM-PGP-KEY           -- PGP signature for packages from Red Hat
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 |----> vger.rutgers.edu      -- mirror of SPARC ftp files on vger.rutgers.edu
 |----> sunsite.mff.cuni.cz   -- mirror of SPARC ftp site sunsite.mff.cuni.cz
 |----> prep.at.mit.edu       -- mirror of GNU primary ftp site

If you are mirroring to a partition or an NFS volume, you'll need to
get everything under RedHat, as well as the disk images from images
that you need for your system.

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INSTALLING

Installation is very straightforward on the SPARC.  The easiest way is
using a CD-ROM of Red Hat Linux for the SPARC.  Simply drop the CD in
your drive and at the PROM prompt type "boot cdrom" and you should be
presented with an install.  If you are unable to do that for some reason,
you can boot via the network or via floppy.  The images directory on the
CD contains a boot.img. Just use rawrite.exe under DOS (from the dos-utils
dir on the CD) or dd under a *nix variant to write the image to a floppy
and then boot it with 'boot floppy' or 'boot fd()' from the PROM prompt.

Network installations are also possible.  You will need to setup a
combination of RARP, ARP, TFTP, NFS, and BOOTP servers to get the kernel
to the SPARC and mount the root filesystem from.  This is covered in
the Red Hat Manual.

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