Re: help installing on powerbook6,8 w/ dead cd drive

["Ross Gohlke" <developer@grinz.com>]

I think I was looking at outdated documentation. This sounds like it
should work, I will let you know.

Thanks for the prompt reply.
Ross

> Le dimanche 22 mars 2009 à 10:48 -0500, Ross Gohlke a écrit :
>> I also looked into netbooting, but documentation is inconsistent and I
>> could not find netbootable binaries.
>
> I netbooted my powerbook to install Debian on it, and it went smoothly
> (I already had an experience by netbooting some OpenWrt router ; I also
> netbooted back my amd64 from my powerbook ... so I may be a bit more
> experienced, but with some docs it goes ok)
>
> The files used to netboot lenny and the documentation can be found
> here :
> http://www.debian.org/distrib/netinst#netboot
> I set up dhcp3-server, tftpd-hpa, and can then netboot my PB.
>
> The hardest part was finding the correct way to configure some quirks of
> Apple's way of netbooting. In the DHCP server config, you must specify
> both next-server and server-identifier to the IP of your netboot server.
> Also, setting a filename gets ignored by open-firmware's netbooting
> code. So, the correct command to use when in OF on your PB :
>
> boot enet:0,yaboot
>
> This should be enough to get you running the debian installer.
>
> Don't hesitate to ask if you need some more details.
>
> Regards,
> benjamin
>
>
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