Installation Overview

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

Determine which console commands your SPARC system supports
Determine whether you have sufficient memory to use a RAM disk-based installation
Determine how you will boot the installation program
Determine what installation method you will use
Determine whether you will install Red Hat Linux/SPARC from a serial terminal
Load and run the Red Hat Linux installation program

The remainder of this chapter looks at each of these steps in more detail.