Re: Debian PReP boot-floppies
On Thu, Jul 11, 2002 at 11:12:27AM +0200, Stephan Marguet wrote:
> Chris,
>
> Thanks for your quick reply! The information about debootstrap is
> very useful, thank you. Regarding the serial problem, I had tried every
> possible line speed option, played with the firmware endlessly, etc, and
> still it was a no go, which is so odd considering our own kernels have
> never had this problem. I wonder if there are perhaps good
> scripts/instructions for how to supply your own kernel and build a debian
> boot floppy, I suppose it's more complicated than adding INITRD support
> and a ramdisk.image.gz? (I'd tried this, stealing it from:
> stable/main/disks-powerpc/current/powermac... but it never worked :/).
> Ohwell, all this is no longer crucial, we now have our pretty diskless
> debians and are writing scripts to automate future installs. Thanks
> again!
Yes, I almost added that but you were going for the network boot so I didn't.
I think people have had even less luck with floppies on MVME, I will be
corrected if I'm wrong I hope.
The instructions are under Replacing the Rescue Floppy Kernel in the Install
manual appendix.
How about feeding those scripts back to us?
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