Re: Netbooting

["Chris Tillman" <tillman@voicetrak.com>]

On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 09:08:22AM -0400, Russell Hires wrote:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> Hash: SHA1
> 
> Hello all!
> 
> I've been reading the netboot howto on penguinppc.org, but it doesn't say 
> anything about what to type into the OF prompt on the client computer...

Well the way it's laid out in there, holding the n key during boot
makes OF look for a bootp server. If you have that yaboot.conf
employed you should get yaboot loaded without having to go in
OpenFirmware.

OTOH, if you're troubleshooting, the OF device is enet:, so it should
be something like

boot enet:

-- 
*------v--------- Installing Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 --------v------*
|      <http://www.debian.org/releases/woody/installmanual>      |
|   debian-imac (potato): <http://debian-imac.sourceforge.net>   |
|            Chris Tillman        tillman@voicetrak.com          |
|                   May the Source be with you                   |
*----------------------------------------------------------------*


-- 
To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-request@lists.debian.org
with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org