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Re: Problems booting with initrd [was: Re: Testing 2.6.10 on sparc]



Ok.  I'll have to find/setup a Solaris box for that.  Almost all of the machines
here are Solaris except for one FreeBSD system and my U2 which is
currently running
NetBSD.

I had just gotten around to Chapter 4 of the D-I guide when your email
showed up :)



cheers,

     mehul



On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 00:55:45 +0100, Frans Pop <aragorn@tiscali.nl> wrote:
> On Tuesday 15 February 2005 00:32, Mehul Sanghvi wrote:
> > Having taken a look at the netboot images directory, I have the
> > following question(s):
> >
> >     Where are the instructions for doing a netboot ?
> 
> http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/
> - http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.sparc/ch04s04.html
> - http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.sparc/ch05s01.html#boot-tftp
> 
> >      How do I get the boot.img onto a bootable CD ?
> 
> You don't :-P
> You get it on a bootp/dhcp/tftp server.
> 
> >      What else should go on the CD ?
> 
> Nothing, as you don't use the CD drive during a netboot installation.
> 
> > The latest stuff in the netboot sparc64 directory seems to be from
> > November.  Is that correct ?
> 
> No, the latest images are from Jan. 27.
> You need the sparc32/netboot or sparc64/netboot directories in:
> http://people.debian.org/~joshk/d-i/images/daily/
> 
> Cheers,
> FJP
> 
> 
> 


-- 
Mehul N. Sanghvi
email: mehul.sanghvi@gmail.com



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