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