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C.2 Installation Overview

Installation Overview

Installing Red Hat Linux on a SPARC system is slightly more complex than installing Red Hat Linux/Intel, mostly due to differences in machine architecture. In general, the main steps to a successful installation are:

  1. Determine which console commands your SPARC systems supports.

  2. Determine whether you have sufficient memory to use a ramdisk-based installation.

  3. Determine how you will boot the installation program.

  4. Determine what installation method you will use.

  5. Determine whether you will install Red Hat Linux/SPARC from a serial terminal.

  6. Load and run the Red Hat Linux installation program.

Let's look at each of these steps in more detail.


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