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Re: Dropping support for R3000 based DECstation (r3k-kn02)



On Sun, Mar 26, 2006 at 04:53:39PM +0200, Ulrich Teichert wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> [del]
> >You need the netboot images, available from
> >ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/sarge/main/installer-mipsel/current/images/r3k-kn02/boot.img
> 
> Yeah, right. Booting is OK now, but I remember my main problem now:
> I disallow internet connections from my testing pool boxes *alltogether*,
> so the sarge way of getting all over the network doesn't work out
> of the box (still being on an ISDN connection doesn't help either).
> And I lack the disk space to mirror everything.

You need at least a mirror of the installer .udebs (one contains
CDROM access support).

> Is there a way to get the net-based installer to pull the rest of the
> data from a CDROM? This was no problem with the woody installer.

Hm, exporting the CD via a web server might work.


Thiemo



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