Re: [CentOS] Installing over network

2010-01-05 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Montag, den 04.01.2010, 15:18 +0100 schrieb Karanbir Singh: Hi, On 01/03/2010 07:38 PM, Slack-Moehrle wrote: I see that sparc.centos.org does not contain any ISO's so that I can install from CD. Firstly, the sparc port isnt all done - or supported. But it would be awesome to get some

Re: [CentOS] Installing over network

2010-01-05 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 01/05/2010 12:33 PM, Christoph Maser wrote: Since redhat does not accept sparc-specific patches it is simply to frustrating to do the sparc thing. And what is the furture of the sparc architecture in general? Are redhat really refusing sparc specific patches ? I know the fedora sparc guys

Re: [CentOS] Installing over network

2010-01-05 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Dienstag, den 05.01.2010, 14:28 +0100 schrieb Karanbir Singh: On 01/05/2010 12:33 PM, Christoph Maser wrote: Since redhat does not accept sparc-specific patches it is simply to frustrating to do the sparc thing. And what is the furture of the sparc architecture in general? Are redhat

Re: [CentOS] Installing over network

2010-01-05 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 01/05/2010 03:49 PM, Christoph Maser wrote: Are redhat really refusing sparc specific patches ? Here they did: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=436038 In cases like that we would just need to maintain our own sparc patchset. I dont think there is any way to work around that.

Re: [CentOS] Installing over network

2010-01-04 Thread Chris Morley
I see that sparc.centos.org does not contain any ISO's so that I can install from CD. How does one install over the internet? I have never done it before. I assume use the boot.iso and make sure that I have DHCP turned on so that I get an IP automatically from my router? -Jason Hi

Re: [CentOS] Installing over network

2010-01-04 Thread Karanbir Singh
Hi, On 01/04/2010 01:59 PM, Chris Morley wrote: Check out this on my blog, boot from web: http://csmorley.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!990C0A249621766!157.entry Maybe this will help? ok, so I am going to take a wild guess and assume that you have never used sparc hardware, ever. -- Karanbir

Re: [CentOS] Installing over network

2010-01-04 Thread Karanbir Singh
Hi, On 01/03/2010 07:38 PM, Slack-Moehrle wrote: I see that sparc.centos.org does not contain any ISO's so that I can install from CD. Firstly, the sparc port isnt all done - or supported. But it would be awesome to get some traction around that and actually get it finished. How does one

Re: [CentOS] Installing over network

2010-01-04 Thread John R Pierce
Slack-Moehrle wrote: Hi All, I see that sparc.centos.org does not contain any ISO's so that I can install from CD. How does one install over the internet? I have never done it before. older sparcs use a different network boot sequence than PCs, they do NOT use bootp or PXE.rather,

Re: [CentOS] Installing over network

2010-01-04 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 01/04/2010 04:54 PM, John R Pierce wrote: from tftp, and then this generally loads the rest of the OS from NFS. Once the installer is running from the tftp images, you can install over http ( and therefore over the internet as well ), but you do need a local tftp setup. Also, some OBP's let

Re: [CentOS] Installing over network

2010-01-04 Thread John R Pierce
Karanbir Singh wrote: On 01/04/2010 04:54 PM, John R Pierce wrote: from tftp, and then this generally loads the rest of the OS from NFS. Once the installer is running from the tftp images, you can install over http ( and therefore over the internet as well ), but you do need a

[CentOS] Installing over network

2010-01-03 Thread Slack-Moehrle
Hi All, I see that sparc.centos.org does not contain any ISO's so that I can install from CD. How does one install over the internet? I have never done it before. I assume use the boot.iso and make sure that I have DHCP turned on so that I get an IP automatically from my router? Any advice?

Re: [CentOS] Installing over network

2010-01-03 Thread Michael Nausch
HI! Quoting Slack-Moehrle mailingli...@mailnewsrss.com: I assume use the boot.iso and make sure that I have DHCP turned on so that I get an IP automatically from my router? At bootpromt say linux askmethod, and make your config