Bug#60173: Sparc tftpboot.img doesn't work on sun4c, root.bin images are missing

[Eric Delaunay <delaunay@lix.polytechnique.fr>]

David Huggins-Daines wrote:
> Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org> writes:
> 
> > Wrong, root.bin is not subarch dependant. The file is in
> > current/images-1.44/
> 
> Doh!  I knew that, and yet I didn't look there (yet another argument
> against having these stupid images-1.44 directories :P)
> 
> > Also, you you can use the a.out kernels with NFS root, but serving up
> > root.tar.gz (unpacked of course, and instructions are covered in the
> > install docs) from an NFS server.
> 
> Ah yes, good idea.  Thanks.

How much memory your sparc is?
I guess tftpbooting requires >= 12MB or 16MB.  I didn't run extensive tests
with low memory systems yet (my sparc2 is 64MB, and my Classic is 24MB).
It's on my todo list but don't have much spare time at the moment.

Regards.

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 Eric Delaunay                 | S'il n'y a pas de solution, c'est qu'il n'y
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