Frans van Berckel wrote:
On Tue, 2015-07-28 at 19:38 +0200, Frans van Berckel wrote:There's a way big difference in 32 vs 64 bit, (the kernel is 64 bit) so upgrading a Wheezy 32 to Sid 64, will that flow? So the question is, what are the packages needed to do a minimal install. And are these build (and ready for use) on sparc64? If so, we can create Netboot image. And boot it from network, true?I found this 2007 post on netbooting Debian on a Sunfire V120 ... https://www.pbandjelly.org/2007/12/debian-on-sunfire-v120/
That looks about right. I note that the 'Preparing Files for TFTP Net Booting' link is now broken (might be on archive.org), it's not something I've done recently but basically one needed a kernel and an initrd then ran piggyback to create a single file for TFTP. I /really/ don't know if there are extra gotchas for 64 bit, and I've not tried doing the whole thing from scratch.
If I am well, a common way today booting from USB, isn't gonna run on Sparc64? Because if so we could create a 64 bit chroot on USB.
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