I had asked about an IDPOM programming problem for a sparc 4c and got no response but was finally able to find the answer on the net. If anyone has a similar problem go to ftp://ftp.mindlink.net/pub/crypto/sun-stuff/sun-nvram-hostid.faq.html#G ENERAL it helped me and now I have Redhat 6.2 for Sparc on my machine. Jeff