Re: netbooting alphastation 500 with current debian
On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 01:14:13AM -0400, alex avriette wrote:
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> i'm real excited in that i've got bootp and tftp working to the degree
> the alpha will load an image. anyone care to speculate on how to build
> an image it will like?
One way to build an image is to do "make bootpfile" after making the
kernel, and a BOOTPable image will appear as arch/alpha/boot/bootpfile.
It is uncompressed, so it can be fairly large (>1MB).
Another way is to build it via the "aboot" package, which has the
advantage of building an image with the compressed kernel, so it is
a good bit smaller, but does require the presence of the "aboot"
development environment.
--Jay++
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