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- This CD-ROM includes two images of Sprite boot disks that can be
- used to boot Sprite on your workstation. To do this you will need
- two things:
-
- 1) A DECstation 5000/200 or a SparcStation 2.
- 2) A SCSI disk of at least 100 MB in size which does not contain
- any information you wish to keep in any of its partitions.
-
- The DECstation boot image is in the file ds5000.bt and the SparcStation
- is in sun4.bt. Hook your disk up to a convenient machine and put
- the boot image onto the disk, starting at the beginning of the
- disk. On a Unix system you can use the "dd" program, e.g. :
-
- dd if=sun4.bt of=/dev/rsd00c (or whatever device is appropriate)
-
- Make sure you dd to the beginning of the disk. If you try to put
- it into a partition that doesn't start at the beginning of the disk
- you won't be able to boot from it. You may also want to specify a
- large block size for the dd so it runs quicker.
-
- Once the boot image has been written to the disk attach the disk
- to your intended Sprite workstation. The disk must be SCSI target #0.
- Once the disk is attached reboot your machine. Read the rest of
- this file before you do so, however, since you need to have the
- answers to several questions handy.
- On a DECstation boot using: boot 5/rz0/vmsprite
- On a SparcStation 2 boot using: boot /sbus/esp/sd@0,0 vmsprite
-
- Sprite should begin booting. As part of the boot a configuration
- script will be run that asks you a bunch of questions about your
- particular machine and environment:
-
- Host name (required)
- Host ethernet address (required)
- Host internet address (required)
- Host internet domain (required)
- Internet subnet mask (optional)
- Internet name of a gateway on the same network (optional)
- Gateway's ethernet address (optional)
- Gateway's internet address (optional)
- Internet address of a nameserver (optional)
-
- Sprite will then initialize various configuration files and continue
- booting. You can log in to Sprite as root, with no password. You
- can then start up X windows with "xinit", or run other Unix commands.
-
- The bootable Sprite image is meant to be a demonstration of Sprite, not
- a robust Sprite system. There are several missing things, such as floating
- point and network support.
-
- If vi complains about "redraw", you may have to do "unsetenv EXINIT".
-