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Re: testing rc1 and latest daily on SGI O2



Il Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 10:07:36PM +0000, The Fungi ha scritto:
> On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 11:50:55PM +0200, Giuseppe Sacco wrote:
> > during a few weeks I have an SGI O2, so I am trying a d-i installation.
> > 
> > The system is an IP32 with an R5000 CPU running at 200mhz, 128Mb of RAM,
> > 2x2Gb SCSI disks, CRM rev C video card, SCSI CDROM.
> [...]
> > Do you have any hints on what to do or check in order to install debian
> > on this machine?
> 
> Did you try turning off path MTU discovery on the tftp server?
> 
>    echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_no_pmtu_disc

yes I did. I read in the FAQ that this trick is required if tftpd is
running on linux 2.4. I was using linux 2.6 but I gaveit a try and it
was even worst since the sgi tftp client wasn't able do download the
kernel.

Thanks,
Giuseppe



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