Where can I start?

["Marcelo E. Magallon" <mmagallo@debian.org>]

Hi,

 [ PS: my apologies for making this questions here, I feel more at home on a
   debian- list -- and my final goal is to get Debian installed 

   Please Cc: mmagallo@debian.org, I'm not the list... hmmm... yet? ;-) ]

 I've got a grip of one Ultra Enterprise 1 (there's an Ultra 10, but that's
 off-limits right now) where I can install Linux, but I'd like to know where
 to start. In the future, time constrains relaxed a bit (I hope!!!), I'd
 like to try building debs there, but I have to get Linux running first.
 What I need to know is how to install the system (well, I kinda understand
 that, after reading the docs), but a couple of questions are still bugging
 me:

 * I have a copy of UltraPenguin 1.0.9 (a local sunsite here has a copy of
   that); reading the docs at ultra.linux.cz, they talk about version 1.0
   and 1.0 (yes, twice). One is libc5 and the other libc6 (that's 2.1.100
   from what I've read on -devel). On the ftp server there's 1.0 and 1.1;
   what should I download? Stability is not even a requirement. I'm willing
   to see the system crash.

 * If I download anything, should I burn that straight onto a CD? Any layout
   changes I need to know about? (Gosh, do I hate RH or what! Why can't they
   put a decent doc specifying these things?) What should go on the root
   directory of the CD? Is rockridge ok, a requirement, not necessary?

 * In this I-have-yet-to-understand-RH-layout for ftp sites, what is
   necessary? They only have:

   lftp ftp.ulatina.ac.cr:/Linux/DISTRIBUCIONES/UltraPenguin-1.0.9> ls
   total 34
   drwxr-xr-x   2 65536      12288 Sep 23 15:32 SRPMS/
   drwxr-xr-x   2 65536        512 Apr 16  1998 Users-Guide/
   drwxr-xr-x   8 65536        512 Jun 24 05:44 contrib/
   drwxr-xr-x   6 65536        512 May  8  1998 sparc/
   lrwxrwxrwx   1 65536          5 Oct  2 10:42 sparc64 -> sparc/
   drwxr-xr-x   6 65536        512 Mar 29  1998 updates/

   lftp ftp.ulatina.ac.cr:/Linux/DISTRIBUCIONES/UltraPenguin-1.0.9/sparc> ls
   total 66
   -rw-r--r--   1 65536      19686 Sep  9  1996 COPYING
   -rw-r--r--   1 65536       4298 Mar 27  1998 README
   -rw-r--r--   1 65536       3410 Mar 27  1998 RPM-PGP-KEY
   drwxr-xr-x   5 65536        512 Mar 27  1998 RedHat/
   drwxr-xr-x   2 65536        512 Mar 27  1998 dosutils/
   drwxr-xr-x   2 65536        512 May  2  1998 images/
   drwxr-xr-x   3 65536        512 Apr 17  1998 misc/

   lftp ftp.ulatina.ac.cr:/Linux/DISTRIBUCIONES/UltraPenguin-1.0.9/sparc/RedHat> ls
   total 38
   drwxr-xr-x   2 65536      17408 Sep 23 15:33 RPMS/
   drwxr-xr-x   2 65536        512 Aug 24 09:49 base/
   drwxr-xr-x   2 65536        512 Mar 27  1998 instimage/
   -rw-r--r--   1 65536          0 Mar 27  1998 sparc
   -rw-r--r--   1 65536          0 Mar 27  1998 sparc64

   What should go on a CD? Is this enough? Is this too old?

 I have other questions on my mind, but everything's so blurry right now...

 TIA,

						Marcelo