Re: netinst via tftp ?

[Dennis Clarke <dclarke@blastwave.org>]

On 04/20/2018 11:32 AM, Dennis Clarke wrote:
> Dear sparc types :
>
>      I have setup a small machine to test with. A very old netra type
> unit. Should I assume that I can network boot the existing
> debian-9.0-sparc64-NETINST-1.iso via tftp or is there a better install
>   image laying about?

As a follow up ( to myself ) I have tftp server going with :

# ls -lap /export/debian9_sparc/boot
total 45879
dr-xr-xr-x   2 root     root        2048 Apr  4 20:55 ./
dr-xr-xr-x   2 root     sys         2048 Apr  4 20:55 ../
-r--r--r--   1 root     root         770 Apr  4 20:55 debian.txt
-r--r--r--   1 root     root     14093161 Apr  4 20:55 initrd.gz
-r--r--r--   1 root     root        6752 Jan 22  2016 isofs.b
-r--r--r--   1 root     root         173 Apr  4 20:55 notsupported.txt
-r--r--r--   1 root     root       53760 Jan 22  2016 second.b
-r--r--r--   1 root     root         846 Aug 31  2017 silo.conf
-r--r--r--   1 root     root     9328968 Apr  4 20:55 sparc64

There is no dvd drive and nothing but a serial console so I hope this is
even possible.

Dennis