Re: PowerPC Install

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

On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 07:17:43PM -0400, Russell Hires wrote:
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> > There are actually three ways to boot the oldworld pmacs :
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> >   o Using BootX you just need the vmlinux and initrd.gz from :
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> >     2.6 :
> > http://people.debian.org/~luther/d-i/images/daily/powerpc/netboot/ 2.4 :
> > http://people.debian.org/~luther/d-i/images/daily/powerpc/netboot/2.4 (or
> > the cdrom equivalent)
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> Okay...so what do I do with the initrd.gz file? 
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> I don't have a clue. I can't use it as a ramdisk...is there a ramdisk that I'd 
> use?

BootX, from the report of others, never seen it myself, has support for
specifying both a kernel (the vmlinux) and a ramdisk (the initrd.gz).

Friendly,

Sven Luther