Re: booting cd on a snake
False alarm!
I booted. You know how? By using a CD-R disc instead of a CD-RW. I don't
know how that can be possible, since the drive used always read cd-rw
disc and I even tried to use my own cd burner whitch has written that
same ISO on OpenBSD and which then could mount it! So it is really
strange, but true... SO now I am in the debian booter and messing up
with the partitions :)
I'll report further successes. For now I will try debian. I have 64Mb of ram
(this is the max? anyway those are proprietary modules) and only 1gb of
disk. Maybe later on I'll try gentoo too.
-Ric
PPS: latest news while writing this message: installation of the base system
seems stopped at retrieving
"file:/instmnt/pool/main/d/dpkg/dpkg_1.9.20_hppa.deb ", but I''l investigate
later, for now.. I have dinner.
on 10/10/03 4:48 PM, Grant Grundler at grundler@parisc-linux.org wrote:
> Well, I'd expect that since gentoo are likely using palo as well
> to generate the LIF-like image for the ISO.
>
> Sounds like 7x0 firmware wants more on the LIF-like image than
> palo is generating. Not sure we'll be able to fix that. You might
> try some of the older images (Debian 3.0r0) just to see if
> that was a recently introduced bug.
>
> The only alternative I can suggest is attempting to net boot/install.
> There are "lifimage" files available that can be fed via rbootp (IIRC)
> to the 7x0 workstation. Perhaps someone else can suggest a HOW-TO
> for setting that up.
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