Dual booting Gentoo Linux/SPARC and Solaris can be done one of two ways. The two ways are: having both Gentoo Linux/SPARC and Solaris on the same drive, or having them on separate drives. Below are example SILO configurations for each scenario.

Yes you can! In fact, yabootconfig will automatically detect and setup /etc/yaboot.conf with Linux, Mac OS X and even classic Mac OS (see the Gentoo Handbook for details on yabootconfig). The trick is in how you partition your hard drive. Before installing Gentoo, startup with the Mac OS X Install CD. Use the Disk Utility to partition the drive in your machine into two or three partitions.

How does Qemu know to exit? I am emulating Linux on Linux, and no matter how I shutdown, Qemu doesn't exit on its own.

The best way to learn how to do those things is choose a distro that comes with a bootloader, and then read their documentation.

It depends on the type of SPARC, but chances are yes. One exception seems to be the SPARC based laptops from Tadpole, particularly the newer models. If you have a working Tadpole on Gentoo/SPARC, please contact us and let us know the details on the model and anything special needed to get it to work. The Gentoo/SPARC team maintains a hardware compatibility list for SPARC64 systems.

You can also find additional information from this Microsoft Help Forum thread: Dual Boot Windows - Links Galore

You can configure your computer to start Windows 2000, Windows NT, and either Windows 95 or Windows 98. However, you cannot configure a computer to multiple boot Windows 95 and Windows 98. Both Windows 95 and Windows 98 use the same boot file. Therefore, multiple booting Windows 95 and Windows 98 at the same time is not supported. Your installations are less prone to problems if you install Windows 95 or Windows 98 before you install Windows NT and Windows 2000.

Remember, the IO is basically a standard pentium class PC with a standard BIOS and a 16MB flash memory card. Please read some of the messages in the "Technical" area on the I-Appliance Discussion Forum BBS, you will find many posts there talking about different OS's and how other installations went.

You must first resize your Linux partition using a program like Disk Druid, parted or some other partition-manipulating program. You can then add a Windows partition and install Windows. When you are done you need a boot disk to get back into Linux and reinstall GRUB. For additional information, email .

For a list of additionally supported Sun hardware, consult the following list from the UltraLinux homepage - http://www.ultralinux.org/faq.html#q_2_2. A partial list of Sun devices which do NOT currently have support under Gentoo/SPARC or SPARC/Linux in general are: Also, Gentoo/SPARC developer Sven Blumenstein keeps a list of PC hardware that has been tested with the PCI based SPARC64 systems at http://dev.gentoo.org/~bazik/hw.php.

Currently, Gentoo has experimental network boot/tftpboot images available on a local Gentoo mirror in experimental/sparc/tftpboot. Get the appropriate image for your SPARC computer and then proceed to the Netboot HOWTO for further instructions. This problem is a result of the framebuffer support the Linux kernel loads at boot time, and the modelines available on SPARC systems. Here we will assume your monitor and video card will agree on a resolution of 1024 by 768 at a refresh rate of 60 Hz.

No. The lmhostid is used to calculate the key, not the server hostname. The lmhostid should be the same for both since it comes from the Ethernet card. Since it is the same, the user should have two copies of his license file. The one for Windows should have the server name set to the Windows server hostname. The Linux license file should have the server hostname associated with the machine when booted under Linux.

Booting into Linux is easy, all you need is a recent copy of Penguin (the booter) and a kernel. (Both of which can be found on this site under "Downloads".) Before you can boot into Linux, you will need to turn off Virtual Memory and you may need Mode32 (see the section on Mode32, later). Start up Penguin, select the kernel that you want to boot from in the configuration screen, and then use the boot option from the file menu. If it works, you'll get a message about rarp requests.

BX 6.1: Yes, just cut and paste the appropriate key into the key request dialog box as BX starts on the platform. Alternatively, if your startup file detects which system type you are using, just set the environment variable above to the appropriate location for that system. EPak and ViewKit share the same evaluation key on both Linux and UNIX, so you can just set it once. BX 6.0: If you need to evaluate both a UNIX and Linux version of BX PRO with BX 6.

The best way is to join the #gentoo-sparc IRC channel on Freenode IRC network irc.freenode.net. This is where all of the developers hang out and talk SPARC (amongst other things). Short of email, this is the best way to get our attention, and blame seemant! :) Also, many users and developers make use of the Gentoo/SPARC forum. This is a good place to ask questions and see what problems have come up before, as well as talk shop about Gentoo/SPARC.

http://docs.sun.com - Additional hardware and software information for SPARC systems, including instructions for flashing OBP The contents of this document are licensed under the Creative Commons - Attribution / Share Alike license.

Okay, sure, some MIPS machines aren't the fastest boxes on the block these days. However, despite the age of some of these beasts, they still can make very functional, useful machines. A Cobalt Qube 2 could make a very nice broadband Internet router, capable of hosting websites, email, IRC and numerous other tasks. There are a number of reasons why you'd want to install Linux on this sort of hardware. Status Symbol: Linux on x86 is so common these days it's not funny.

Install CDs for all supported architectures are available on our Gentoo Store. When you purchase a CD from our store, you are also supporting our development. So, please consider buying from our store if possible.

Usually the Win9x will be the C: drive, which also contains the files needed for booting. So, you cannot simply reformat this partition to remove Win9x. Instead, the following procedure should work: Delete the C:\Windows and C:\Program Files folders, along with any other folders on the C: drive that you do not need anymore. Some reports also say you can format the C: drive and boot from the Win XP CD, which will allow you to repair the boot files.

Yes, but you will have to have two partitions (or hard drives) so that you can install XP separately from your other system (which can be DOS/Windows 3.1, Windows 9x/Me, Windows NT 4.0, or Windows 2000). Windows XP will automatically set up a boot menu so you can choose which OS you want when the machine starts up or reboots. The boot menu is configurable by hand-editing the hidden file boot.ini, which you will find in the root of the C: drive.

You will need a TSM client for each operating system. Register separately for each of your two (or three) operating systems for HFS TSM Backup via the registration pages. This will give you TSM Client nodenames of the form username-text-department/college, e.g. abcd1234-windows-exeter and abcd1234-linux-exeter. You should then obtain and install the latest TSM Client software for each operating system, from the Getting Started link from the front page of the HFS web pages.

No. All future versions of Windows, starting with OSR2 will not support dual-boot. ( That includes Windows 98. ) Because of the new FAT32, Windows will crash if you boot to another OS that does not support FAT32. ( DOS for example. )

Yes, as long as the Windows computer uses a USB keyboard. The device is compatible with any USB keyboard.

There's no way to run a SPARC binary on an x86 machine unless you wrote an emulator for the SPARC CPU and ran it.

If you are developing on a SPARC platform, we are planning to post a SPARC version of the developer tools bundle including the web stack, as a separate download, for late-February. You can download the OS component now as the Solaris Express Community Edition build 79b (DVD) or (CD). Solaris Express Developer Edition:—OpenSolaris-based distribution of Solaris. SXDE features a new installer, and installation includes a variety of developer tools.