Bug#60173: Sparc tftpboot.img doesn't work on sun4c, root.bin images are missing
On Mon, Mar 13, 2000 at 01:18:20PM +0100, Eric Delaunay wrote:
> 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.
According to what I have read, it requires less than 8 megs (atleast tilo
says min 5 megs after creating the tftp image).
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