Hi Rick, On Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 02:32:56AM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote: > > Do you mean the 2.6 floppy disks? I haven't been able to get them > to work. The 2.6 "boot" floppy (the "ofonlyboot" floppy as well) > starts reading OK but ends with the screen colors inverted and > hangs. It never ejects the "boot" floppy or switches to the text > screen. Do you know how to get around this?
Yes, the floppy (ofbootonly.img). See... http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2004/09/msg00650.html > The 2.4 floppy set works fairly well, though there's still one > show-stopper problem. It can't seem to find my IDE disk. I'll be > submitting an install report on my experiences soon. > > If you're talking about the CDs (businesscard or netinst) I agree > with you. 2.6 is very nice. A CD-based 2.6 install from BootX is, > for an experienced user, almost completely trouble-free. > > That said, there are some serious "usability" issues for a novice > user (Fortunately, these issues are largely shared with the "x86" > version -- so I have confidence that they will be fixed before > release.) and the PowerPC sections of the manual need to be > completely re-written for Sarge. The current one has lots of > "Woody"-isms and and not a few "x86"-isms that need to be weeded > out and re-written for Sarge and PowerPC/Mac. Yes. > >Do you know how I could test the netboot images. I'm not there yet. Do > >they allow mounting a source nfs export? I've been inching my way there > >because I'll eventually load up all my cluster nodes in this fashion. > > I haven't tried netboot for Linux yet. (I assume you are talking > about telling Open Firmware to get its kernel and initrd via tftp > from the net, then getting the rest via NFS -- or something like > that.) I've done it for Solaris on Sparc hardware, but never for > Linux. My aversion to Apple's buggy Open Firmware implementations > is showing, I guess. > > If I had to make netboot work, I think I'd try it once on an x86 > box first, just to see how it's "supposed" to work for debian. > You'll probably want to get some experience with the "mkinitrd(8)" > command as well. I expect you'll have to hand-craft your own > initial ram-disk images. The current floppy and/or CD-rom initrd > images won't be much help for a netboot. That sounds right. I've made a bootp solution with FreeBSD a few ago, before the tech bubble poo-pooed and when I got paid to play ;-) and, if I remember well, what was it? ... a Redhat network image server... I forget the package name... Man I hate that! All these were x86. So I'll start there when finished trying to help here. > I guess I'm not much help there. You should probably ask the > various debian mailing-lists if anyone has done a netboot install > successfully and can help walk you thru the steps. You should also > check the Apple Tech-info library knowledge-base for anything on > net-booting Macs. And there's always google and his cousins, as a > last resort. Good advice. > Enjoy! > > Rick Thanks, Duane -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
