Re: Linux on a RiscPC 600
>In message <[🔎] E12rOCh-0000Tn-00@pearl.tao.co.uk>
> "David Given" <dg@tao-group.com> wrote:
>
>> I've done this bit before; it's not terribly hard, just fiddly (you have to
>> configure all the stuff in /etc manually). Anyone who's ever installed ò0
>> Slackware, and then got it working, will have no problems.
>
>This is what my Debian RiscPC install instructions use - see the URL in
>sig.
[...]
I've followed the instructions, and I now have a nicely partitioned hard drive with base2_2.tgz uncompressed into /dev/hda3.
Unfortunately, I can't boot it, because the instructions don't mention where to get a Debian kernel! The Red Hat kernel won't run Debian binaries (ELF vs a.out?) and won't mount Debian ext2 images (`unsupported optional features' --- what's going on here?) so I can't actually do much with it at the moment.
I poked around on folk a bit and couldn't find anything that looked like a kernel. I downloaded deb-nw on the off-chance, but it was 2.2MB vs. Red Hat's 500kB kernel, and didn't work anyway. Where is it?
...other than that everything seems to be working (so far). I haven't used the Debian install disks, but I have downloaded them.
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