First you need to boot your system to the install program. You will have to create your boot floppy, and creating it depends on which version of the PROM you have. The images directory on your Red Hat Linux/SPARC CD contains two images. Use boot-v0.img if you have a PROM version 0 or 1 (this is the major number...PROM 1.6 is a type 1 PROM). Use boot-v2.img if you have a PROM version 2.0 or greater. To create the floppy, you can use rawrite.exe under MS-DOS (located on your Red Hat Linux/SPARC CD in the dosutils directory), or you can use dd under Linux or Unix. Under MS-DOS, you would enter the following commands (assuming the CD-ROM is drive d:):

d:
cd \images
..\dosutils\rawrite.exe

When prompted, enter the file name of the image to write to floppy.

Under Linux or Unix, mount the CD, change to the directory it is mounted under, and use the following command:

dd if=images/boot-v2.img of=/dev/fd0

Replace boot-v2.img with boot-v0.img if you have a version 0 or 1 PROM. Also note, do not use /dev/rfd0 under Solaris; it will not work. Use /dev/fd0 instead.

Insert the diskette, and at the PROM prompt enter boot floppy. You will be presented with a SILO prompt. If you wish to do your install using a ramdisk (it will use about 2M of RAM and is recommended if you have 8M or more of RAM), you can simply press [Enter] at the SILO prompt. If you wish to do an NFS-rooted install, you will need to supply some paramters here. The formula is as follows:

linux nfsroot=nfs.server.IP.address:/path/to/RH/image