SystemRescueCd for Sparc

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[edit] About

This page presents the details about the SPARC (Sun architecture) edition of SystemRescueCd. This edition can be found from the download page and there is an detailed Changelog.

[edit] Features in SystemRescueCd for SPARC

SystemRescueCd for SPARC aims to provide a livecd for SPARC based on Linux, that allows you to install, backup and troubleshoot your system or your data on a Sparc machine. It's based on a recent linux-2.6.22 kernel with support for most hardware and file systems. Then you can partition your disk (with fdisk or parted), format a partition with one of the supported file systems (ext3fs, reiserfs, xfs, jfs, ufs (solaris). The read-only support for UFS allows you to mount and backup your Solaris file systems.

SystemRescueCd for Sparc comes with most network tools (ssh, telnet, NFS client+server, Samba-3.0.24, tcpdump, ...) in order to provide all tools necessary to work remotely. It also support Perl-5.8.8 and Python-2.4.4 that are widely used scripting languages.

If you want to have more details about the programs provided with this edition please browse the detailed package list for SPARC.

[edit] Questions and feedback

Please, post questions about releases for SPARC in this part of the forums: http://www.sysresccd.org/forums/index.php?c=7

[edit] Booting linux on sparc

You may have problems to boot with SystemRescueCd on SPARC computers. In that case, check the followings:

• Check your OBP (OpenBios Prom) is recent. You may have to upgrade it if it's too old.
• Check you have a sparc64 architecture (sun4u or sun4v)
• In case of problems with boot cdrom try cold boot (you must define the cdrom as first boot device with setenv boot-device cdrom disk net in OBP before)