Re: Found Kernel for RaQ2 - where is the installer?
* Joerg Rossdeutscher <joerg@factorlocal.de> [2004-05-11 20:16]:
> Maybe this is correct and I've got to continue on then serial console?
Yes, sorry I wasn't clear about this. At this stage, you have to use
the serial console. In a future version, we hope to support SSH, but
that's still a few weeks away.
> The reason for my question: None of my other machines can do a
> 115.000bps connection, so I can't see something in my terminal
> application (I heard about holding space while booting to
> autodetect a lower speed, but that didn't work)
I don't know how to change the serial setting on the RaQ. Maybe
someone else does.
> Other platforms and the woody installer had a kind of "minimal system"
> on cd/nfs/filesystem to run the installer. But the cobalt stuff just
> seems to contain initd, kernels and a bootloader. Where does it expect
> the remaining stuff, and where do *I* get it? :-)
The initrd contains a very minimal system with the capability to
download the actual installer components. Those are distributed all
over http://http.us.debian.org/debian/pool.
> 1.
> The default.colo-file had "^M" linebreaks, I changed that with vi.
> Maybe my Macintosh ftp-client did that.
Yeah, my default.colo doesn't have such linebreaks.
> 2.
> It seems as if some files belonged to /boot, some to /nfsroot and some
> to nfsroot/boot. After getting annoyed I just copied every file to
> every folders, chown'ed them nobody:nogroup, chmod'ed them 666 (777 for
> folders) due some unclear explained access restrictions in man tftp.
Yeah, sorry. This depend on the exact machine you have. In my daily
images (http://people.debian.org/~tbm/d-i/images/mipsel/daily/) I have
a symlink from boot to . for exact that reason. Sorry I wasn't clear
about this. The file mode should be 644, this is also safe.
> 3.
> The last time I played with woody the kernels name had to be
> "vmlinux_RAQ.gz". The kernels on the debian server have other names. I
> made a copy of this kernel with the name vmlinux_RAQ.gz just to be on
> the safe site - I didn't even try if this is necessary.
There's a file with that name at
http://people.debian.org/~tbm/d-i/images/mipsel/daily/cobalt/netboot/
but I think I forgot to mention that, sorry. (Different Cobalt
machines expect different names...)
--
Martin Michlmayr
tbm@cyrius.com
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