Re: netbooting imac, docs not ok..

[Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>]

On Fri, Apr 16, 2004 at 02:44:23PM +0200, segfault@chello.se wrote:
> 
> But then I downloaded the netinstall for sarge from: ftp://ftp.du.se/debian/dists/testing/main/installer-powerpc/current/images/powerpc/netboot
> Something went wrong here, I managed to get yaboot loaded as usual, 
> but when the kernel was being transfered it just hanged. I tried 
> 3 times and it always hanged at the same packet. That's when I sat 
> down to write this mail about how I got netbooting working, and 
> failed to transfer the kernel sarge uses for netinstall.

I believe that the problem is that the kernel and/or initrd is too big
for netbooting via yaboot. Not idea how you do that. Not sure what your
exact problem is, as i don't use netbooting on pmac hardware.

It works fine on my chrp based pegasos box though.

Friendly,

Sven Luther