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The UltraPenguin distribution
Installation guide for the UltraPenguin 1.1
distribution, a RedHat 5.0 based distribution for SPARC and
UltraSPARC based machines.
This distribution, available from Ultra.Linux.Cz
is a for both 32bit and
64bit SPARC CPUs.
For more information on UltraLinux, see the UltraLinux homepage, for more information on
SparcLinux, see the SparcLinux
homepage.
Supported Hardware
UltraPenguin 1.1 supports a variety of hardware based on the
SPARC architecture.
CPU's:
- Sun4 machines (4/300 only at the moment)
- Sun4c machines (IPC, SS1, etc)
- Sun4m machines (IPX, Classic, SS5, SS10, SS20, ..., including
SMP boxes; only SS5/170 is not yet supported)
- UltraSPARC SBUS based workstations (Ultra1, Ultra2, Ultra1
Creator, Ultra2 Creator, including SMP configurations)
- UltraSPARC PCI based workstations (Ultra30, UltraAX,
Ultra10, Ultra5, Ultra60)
- UltraSPARC SBUS based servers: Enterprise 1, 2, 150,
3000, 4000, 5000, 6000, 10000 (SMP is being worked on)
- UltraSPARC PCI based servers: Enterprise 450 (including SMP)
SCSI interfaces:
- NCR53c9x-based Sbus SCSI interface, including SCSI component
os FSBE/S and similar Sbus cards
- Qlogic ISP1000 based Sbus SCSI interface (QLGC, isp, Performance
Technologies - qlogicpti)
- SparcSTORAGE Array 1xxx, 2xxx (pluto) on top of on-board
and Sbus SOC Fibre Channel (soc)
- Adaptec AIC7XXX PCI SCSI interface (aic7xxx)
- NCR53C8XX PCI SCSI interface
Disks:
- most SCSI disks and CD-ROMs
- IDE disks on PCI-based machines
- built-in floppy drive
Tape drives:
Serial interfaces:
- built-in Zilog 8530 serial ports (usable as system console)
- built-in Siemens SAB82532 serial ports (likewise)
Network interfaces:
- on-board and Sbus LANCE ethernet on Sbus boxes (sunlance)
- the LANCE ethernet component of FSBE/S Sbus cards
- on-board and Sbus HappyMeal 10/100 Mbps ethernet on Sbus boxes
- on-board and PCI HappyMeal 10/100 Mbps ethernet on PCI boxes
- Sun QuadEthernet (sunqe)
- Myricom Gigabit Ethernet Sbus card (myri_sbus)
- Digital Etherworks PCI and other DECchip based PCI cards
(de4x5)
Framebuffers:
- bwtwo, cg3, cg6, TCX framebuffers (24 bit on the TCX)
- cg14 framebuffer (except reserving system memory for video framebuffer)
- UPA Creator, Creator3D
- PCI ATI Mach64
Unsupported Hardware:
- Ultra-III based machines
- SunBPP parallel port on Sbus machines
- SunATM Sbus adapter
- CiscoATM Sbus adapter, Zeitnet based
- SunVideo
- UPA Elite3Dm3, Elite3Dm6 framebuffers
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