On Fri, Aug 13, 2004 at 02:27:08PM +0200, Kilian Krause wrote: > Hi Stephen, > > > nativehd is a netinstall. > > hmmm, to the unsuspecting user it sounds like "nativehd" would be "put > all the files on hd and install from there".. maybe it should be renamed > or at least put into some popular space. I'm not thrilled with the name, but no one has come up with a better one that's not easily confused with one of the other images. > I've now tried with "root22.bin" from today's netinstall CD-Rom.. what's > that gonna yield? cdrom. > > hd-media is a cdrom-based installed that used > > an iso image instead of an actual cdrom. I have that on my todo to go into > > the manual somewhere. > > Ok, excellent. Is hd-media ok for the non-businesscard, but for the > netinstaller-iso which does have the base-system-debs included in the > ISO? It's designed for a cd with d-i and base on it, like netinst. > > > > So now i boot the penguin with the above vmlinuz and initrd.gz, but i > > > > get a Kernel-panic cannot find root.. Hmm?! So how am i supposed to boot > > > > the netinstall? > > > > > > Check the FAQ and add root=/dev/ram. And yes, this is already in the sarge > > > FAQ: > > > > > > http://people.debian.org/~cts/debian-m68k/sarge/ > > > > You will also need ramdisk_size=13000. > > > Yep, now ramdisk_size=20000 worked too. This definitely needs to go into > the manual too. Especially since Christian's page only told it's needed > for woody (and leaving the user like "ok, i'm going for sarge, i don't > need that").. It's in the sarge manual, but obviously not clear enough. ramdisk_size can be anything >= 13000. Thanks, Stephen -- Stephen R. Marenka If life's not fun, you're not doing it right! <stephen@marenka.net>
Attachment:
signature.asc
Description: Digital signature