On Sun, Nov 27, 2005 at 10:18:55PM +0100, Sandy Elaut wrote:
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sven Luther [mailto:sven.luther@wanadoo.fr]
> Sent: zondag 27 november 2005 21:22
> To: Kurt De Pauw
> Cc: debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: Installing Debian on a RS/6000 Question
>
> On Sun, Nov 27, 2005 at 08:15:26PM +0100, Kurt De Pauw wrote:
> > Christian,
> >
> > I downloaded your kernel and write it with rewrite to a floppy.
> > When doing boot floppy, it read for a second the Floppy and does nothing.
> > then
> > I downloaded your kernel en the initrd.gz.
> > and installed tftpd32 ( for windows ) on another machine.
> >
> > When I use " boot net bootpserverIP,kernelname,192.168.1.20(RS/6000) "
>
> boot net:serverip,kernel,myip
>
> you forgot the :.
>
> Friendly,
>
> Sven Luther
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> Man I'm trying now for about 5 hours to boot net the server, and it isn't
> working.
> I always get a BAD IP VALUE message
>
> I don't know anymore
> I'm desperate :-(
>
> Such a waste of a nice server not able to do his job
192.168.1.20(RS/6000) is NOT a valid ip-address.
^^^^^^^^
*EXACTLY* what is the string you use?
Should be something like this
" boot net:192.168.1.1,vmlinux-2.6.8,192.168.1.20"
assuming that the ip of the server is 192.168.1.1 and the kernel is
called vmlinux-2.6.8
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