I have a number of suggestions / tips for the SPARC install guide. - In Part 1 - Supported Hardware, there is an "Unsupported" section which has an incomplete sentence regarding the status of X Window System support on this platform. Please complete or update the thought... - In Part 2 - Booting, please document the use of the 'Stop-A' key sequence to access the firmware menu (the "ok" prompt). This is completely obscure to anyone not previously familiar with Sun hardware and is necessary to prevent the machine from booting Solaris, if it's installed. - In Part 2 - Booting, if booting from CD-ROM is the easiest and preferred method, then it should be listed first. - Depending on the age of the machine and the CD-ROM drive used, there may be issues booting from an ISO image that has been written to CD-RW media. I encountered this on my external Pioneer drive and had to burn a new disc using CD-R media, which worked like a champ. - The flow of the document is hard to follow with all of the exceptions to deal with how the machine was booted and whether you have 'sparc' or 'sparc64' hardware. Not sure how best to deal with this (split the manual into two versions?), but thought it worth noting. - In Part 3 - Installing gentoo, I was unable to get 'dhcpcd eth0' to succeed until I skipped ahead and executed the statements listed in Code listing 4.1 to mount the CD-ROM and start up a chroot environment. (Not sure if this is sheer ignorance on my part or not.) - To the best of my knowledge, most (all?) Sun machines use SCSI hard drives. If true, references to hard disk devices in the examples should be changed from "/dev/hda" to "/dev/sda" type references. (This is also helpful for Linux newbies.) That's it for now, until I get further with my install. Thanks, Andy Romeril Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3.
- Part 4 - Set up partitions, needs to borrow more detail from the x86 install guide, especially with respect to a basic partition layout (boot, swap, root, etc.). - Also in Part 4, some discussion of the Sun disklabel scheme would be welcome, though I cannot offer content for that.
Actually I know that at least the Blade 100's (sparc 64) do have IDE only on the stock machines. That's about all I have to correct about your suggestions, though :)
Will be updaing the install guide soon. Thanks
reassigning to sparc document dev
These issues should be resolved in the latest doc and install iso. If there are still issues, please reopen the bug.
