[Date Prev][Date Next] [Thread Prev][Thread Next] [Date Index] [Thread Index]

Installing via serial line trouble



  I try to install Debian 2.2r4 to HP Omnibook 4000CT.
It has 486/100MHz-processor, 16Mb of memory, floppy,
no CD-ROM and no ethernet card.
  I hope to install via serial line and NFS
(or ftp/or something). And save previous installation
of Win'95 to other computer.
  Is it possible?

First of all I've installed Debian on my home machine
under VMWare and made changes to root floppy image:

/lib/modules/2.2.19/
    /fs/
       lockd.o
       nfs.o
       nls_cp866.o
       vfat.o
    /misc/
       sunrpc.o
    /net/
       slhc.o
       slip.o
/sbin/
     slattach

Then I said 'chroot /image-dir depmod -a', packed
and copied image back to floppy.

Now when I boot from rescue and this root disks,
I switch to second console and do the folowing:

ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1
route add -host 127.0.0.1 lo
modprobe slip
slattach -s 115200 -p slip ttyS0 &
ifconfig sl0 192.168.84.2 pointopoint 192.168.84.1 up
modprobe nfs
mkdir /mnt/nfs
mount -t nfs 192.168.84.1:/pub /mnt/nfs

And have this:
Mounting 192.168.84.1:/pub on /mnt/nfs failed: Invalid argument

------------------------------------------------
 By this point I have same sl0 interface on host
machine with IP 192.168.84.1 and can ping it.
 NFS server is running and reachable from VMWare
by same 'mount -t nfs 192.168.84.1:/pub /mnt/nfs'
command.

On laptop:
#lsmod
Module    Size  Used by
nfs       40544 0
lockd     41740 0 [nfs]
sunrpc    57792 0 [nfs lockd]
slip      7232  2
slhc      4368  1 [slip]
af_packet 6124  0 (unused)
unix      11324 1 (autoclean)

#ifconfig
lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:3924  Metric:1
<skip>
sl0	  Link encap:Serial Line IP
          inet addr:192.168.84.2  P-t-P:192.168.84.1  Mask:255.255.255.255
          UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST  MTU:296  Metric:1
<skip>

#route -n
Destination    Gateway   Genmask          Flags Metric Ref   Use Iface
192.168.84.1   0.0.0.0   255.255.255.255  UH    0      0       0 sl0
127.0.0.1      0.0.0.0   255.255.255.255  UH    0      0       0 lo
-------------------------------------------------

  Ok. So where I was wrong? Maybe I should use
ftp or other way? I'm novice to Debian but have
some experience in one Mandrake-based distribution.

  All comments are welcome. Please, help me.

-- 
 Grigory Batalov.



Reply to: