Re: CHRP boot disks

[Eric Reischer <reischer@psu.edu>]

> > Where is the CHRP boot disk image?
> >
> > I looked here but could not find one:
> > 
> http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/potato/main/disks-powerpc/current/chrp/ 
> images-1.44/
> >
> > It can not be rescue.bin because that image will not fit on a 
> dos-format'ed floppy.
> >

You need to download that file, along with root.bin, and use the following 
commands:

dd if=rescue.bin of=/dev/fd0 bs=1024
dd if=root.bin of=/dev/fd0 bs=1024

{obviously, switching disks in between}  The disk images are intended to be 
written block by block onto the disk, which is why they can't be just 
copied over.  I believe that the destination disk type is either ext2 or 
minix, depending on the date of the distribution, and the mood of the 
developer I suppose.



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Eric Reischer
CCIL Network Administrator
emr@ccil.org

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