10-19-2001
Hmmm
I've got some questions for you, and I think I understand your frustration...
I remember somewhere a while back reading that Suns will only boot from a 2048 block reading CDROM, and the norm is a 1024 block read, so your run of the mill scsi cdrom won't boot a Sun, if that is part of your aim ( or reverse the block sizes, one way or the other...).
I understand you want to install RedHat on the Sparc, so why bother with the CD? From my experience with RH on Sparc (not much), I needed to make a boot diskette, and since that was an image, I could do that on a PC or by dd-ing off my other boxes. If your Sparc is without a floppy, let me say the a sparc floppy is also a bit different from your average floppy.
Now, if you wan to keep solaris and mount that CD, you need to know a coupla things, your filesystem type, and your device. Most of the mount versions out there will see that the device is read-only and warn you and then allow the mount but ask you to use "mount -o ro /dev/cdrom" in the future. Make sure you are mounting the correct partition of the CD, this is part of the device special. I have had the odd CD that wanted s4 mounted or something equally strange.
I also notice that you are using the Linux drive letter specifications, Solaris is different, your devices are under /dev/dsk/c0t6d0s0, as a matter of fact, that is prolly your cd right there, have you explored /dev/dsk for the "cooked" devices on the system? you'll want to look....
Okay, now that all of that is out of the way, if you are installing RH, boot from the floppy, and it will find the CD, especially if you don't have a Sun CDROM, and don't think it's Sun just because the case says so, sometimes it ain't so.
If you are keeping Solaris, mount the drive with:
"mount -o ro /dev/dsk/c0t6d0s0 /cdrom", that should work better.
loadc
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parse_dynamic_clustertoc
parse_dynamic_clustertoc(1M) System Administration Commands parse_dynamic_clustertoc(1M)
NAME
parse_dynamic_clustertoc - parse clustertoc file based on dynamic entries
SYNOPSIS
cdrom/export/exec/sparc.Solaris_2.x/sbin/install.d/parse_dynamic_clustertoc
cdrom/export/exec/i386.Solaris_2.x/sbin/install.d/parse_dynamic_clustertoc
DESCRIPTION
This script parses the clustertoc file before the suninstall(1M) process is run. parse_dynamic_clustertoc is called by a modified syscon-
fig script on the install CD. When parse_dynamic_clustertoc runs, it reads the clustertoc and when it encounters SUNW_CSRMBRIFF lines, it
either checks the platform using the script's builtin function, or calls an external script. The script exits with a 0 if the cluster
entry is included, otherwise it will be ignored. If the cluster entry is to be included, the SUNW_CSRMBRIFF =(test test_arg)cluster line
is converted to SUNW_CSRMEMBER =cluster.
EXAMPLES
Example 1: Checking For an SX Framebuffer
The following is an example of a simple external test to check for an SX Framebuffer. The entry in the clustertoc file is shown and fol-
lowing that is the script that must be placed in the install.d/dynamic_test directory.
SUNW_CSRMBRIFF=(smcc.dctoc sx)SUNWCsx
#! /bin/sh
#
# Likewise, this file is expected to live under $(TESTDIR).
#
case "$1"
in
sx) prtconf -p | grep 'SUNW,sx' 1> /dev/null;;
esac
FILES
cdrom/Solaris_2.x/locale/C/.clustertoc.dynamic
Dynamic version of the clustertoc file
cdrom/export/exec/sparc.Solaris_2.x/sbin/install.d/dynamic_test
Directory that contains any additional tests
cdrom/export/exec/i386.Solaris_2.x/sbin/install.d/dynamic_test
Directory that contains any additional tests
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SHWPcdrom (Solaris CD) |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO
suninstall(1M), clustertoc(4), attributes(5)
SunOS 5.10 6 Sep 1995 parse_dynamic_clustertoc(1M)