Installing ChorusOS

This section provides a brief overview of the installation process. For full information, see the ChorusOS 5.0 Installation Guide.

Installing the Development Environment on the Host

After installation is complete, the Sun Embedded Workshop software provides a development environment containing all the binary components required to build a ChorusOS operating system image. To create a system image for a particular reference target board, follow the instructions in Part II of the ChorusOS 5.0 Installation Collection.

Setting up a Boot Server

A boot server is a system that provides the ChorusOS operating system image for downloading to target systems. A boot server is useful if you want to make the same image available to many targets. To install an instance of the ChorusOS operating system on a boot server, follow the instructions in the ChorusOS 5.0 Installation Guide. The system where you installed the development environment can be used as a boot server.

Building and Booting on a Target System

When you have created an instance of the ChorusOS operating system you require, including embedded applications, and built a system image, you need to boot it on the target system. There are several ways to do this, including:

• Downloading the image at boot time from a boot server

• Loading the image from media located on the target system itself