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SPARC has not been supported since Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx).

Introduction

This page describes an network install of Ubuntu 6.06.1 on a Sun Fire T2000 server which features the UltraSPARC T1 (Niagara) processor from a Solaris system. There is a fair amount of Solaris and T2000 specific information included, but all SPARC installs are similar and Linux users will find much of this information useful.

Dapper does not support T2000 rev 2

In order to install Ubuntu on T2000 rev 2 of the hardware you will need at least Edgy.

Getting the installer booted

This install uses the netboot method as described in Installation/Netboot. These instructions describe the differences for SPARC.

To configure RARP

To calculate the HEX value of the IP address:

# echo <<YOUR_IP>> | awk -F. '{ printf("%0.2x%0.2x%0.2x%0.2x\n", $1,$2,$3,$4) }' | tr '[a-z]' '[A-Z]'

e.g.

# echo 172.16.24.72 | awk -F. '{ printf("%0.2x%0.2x%0.2x%0.2x\n", $1,$2,$3,$4) }' | tr '[a-z]' '[A-Z]'
AC101848

To use a TFTP or HTTP server with no use of RARP or DHCP

setenv network-boot-arguments host-ip=<<MY_IP>>,router-ip=<<MY_ROUTER>>,subnet=mask=<<MY_SUBNET>>,hostname=<<MY_HOSTNAME>>,file=tftp://<<TFTP_ADDRESS>>/boot.img

setenv network-boot-arguments host-ip=172.16.24.72,router-ip=172.16.24.1,subnet-mask=255.255.248.0,hostname=foo.infra.local,file=tftp://172.16.24.23/ubuntu-hardy-sparc-boot.img

boot net debconf/priority=low DEBIAN_FRONTEND=text

boot net debconf/priority=low DEBIAN_FRONTEND=text -o prompt

Installer options

That should be it!


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Installation/Sparc (last edited 2017-09-08 02:32:23 by ckimes)