Re: Floppy-less booting
On Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 08:26:33PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote:
> > it is quite easy to netboot the debian installation. that is how i
> > usually do boot floppy testing on my blue g3 rather then spending time
> > burning a CD.
> >
>
> I'm checking with my ISP to see if they'll support my netbooting. Thanks for
> the pointer! I'll be trying that next.
hehe :) I'd be surprised if your ISP will do anything. What you need is
another computer and a LAN. The net in netbooting is network, _not_
Internet. Netbooting usually uses tftp to get the kernel and other needed
stuff.
> >> A/UX Root: 128M
> >> A/UX Swap: 128M
> >> A/UX User: 1000M
> >
> > where is /home ?
>
> Missing! From the install documentation, I thought I could put /home, /var,
> and the rest on the /user partition. Do I need another partition?
note, that's /usr, not /user. Welcome to Unix :)
You could put /home somewhere in /usr, and make a symbolic link (similar to
a macos alias) from /home to wherever you want to actually put it. If you
haven't got anything installed yet, it might be a good idea to repartition.
If you're only going to leave 1GB for Linux, you might want to put
everything on one partition (the swap still wants its own partition). This
will reduce the chance of running out of room for either your home directory
or installed programs. If you pick the wrong ratio of space, then you'll be
mostly stuck with it. It is possible to resize linux (specifically, ext2)
partitions, or to make symlinks to the other partition, but that's ugly.
For my home machines, I usually make a single partition.
> > here is the deal:
>
> Cool!
>
> > put yaboot and the file `linux' (from the boot-floppies) along with
> > root.bin onto the *root* (not desktop, not system folder, not any
> > other subdirectory) of any of those HFS partitions.
>
> HFS+ is OK, right? I downloaded a brand spanking shiny new linux and
> root.bin from the ftp.us.debian.org. There isn't any yaboot file in the
> stable boot-floppies directory, so I downloaded 1.1.1 from your web page at
HFS+ is _not_ ok for access from linux. I don't know if openfirmware can
handle it. Linux can't read or write hfs+ volumes. The hfsutils web page
say they plan to support hfs+, but don't yet. The hfsutils from darwin do,
I think, since I downloaded the source code a while ago, but I don't know if
anyone's managed to do anything about porting them.
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